Plate carved from black argillite. Rim (1.5 cm. wide) is incised with zigzag pattern. Deeply carved crosshatch is used as background.Incised and carved relief decoration, front and back, including floral and leaf motifs, cross-hatching. Has original Peale # label.Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition. This object has been attributed as possibly Haida, based on its being made of argillite.

From card: "Large elaborately carved mask representing the eagle. Lower mandible hinged [movable] and supplied with cords for moving it. Crest of feathers and shredded cedar bark above. Painted in red, black, and blue. Loan: Museo Nacional de Antropologia May 18, 1964, returned summer of 1983."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) and Jennifer Kramer (anthropologist) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. The inside of the mask is cedar bark. The group discussed the accuracy of the accession/catalog record. There could have been a possible translation/transcription error; probably originally meant to be 'dancing' mask, not 'davenig' mask. [This error seems to have been fixed]

May be Sitka Tlingit?: it is identified as collected in Sitka; and also see accession history re the basket part of this accession being from the "Sitka-Kwahn."

6332 TWO BRACELETS WITH NUMBER OF A SIOUX SCALP.

Object is from Port Mulgrave, per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1162.

FROM CARD: "TRUNCATED CONE OF ORNAMENTAL TWINE BASKETRY, FITTING INTO A SIMILAR ONE OF THE SAME IN PLAIN AND PURPLE BANDS."

FROM CARD: "[One of the cod hooks is] ILLUS. IN J. SWAN, INDIANS OF CAPE FLATTERY, SMITHSONIAN INST., 1869, FIG. 21, P. 41. 2/1/67: 6 SPECIMENS LOCATED. DANISH NATL. MU 1868."Illus. p. 385 of Gilman, Carolyn. 2003. Lewis and Clark across the divide. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. Identified there as made of hemlock, spruce root, sinew, baleen, gut, and with bone barbs. The smaller hooks were for catching cod, and the larger U-shaped hook was for halibut.Similar (same?) objects are shown in illustration on p. 445, in Volume 4 of Charles Wilkes, 1798-1877, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842., 1845 edition, Philadelphia. Printed from original "official" 1844 Philadelphia publication plates ed., 5 vols. (Philadephia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845). This illustration is captioned "Fish-Hooks" and is in the "Puget Sound and Okonagan" chapter of the book.

SMALL HORN SPOON CARVED DESIGN ON HANDLE.