From card: "Forehead band worked with cotton cord and worsteds [wool]; line of frayed rope braided."

FROM CARD: "LOOKS SUBARCTIC INDIAN?"STYLE OF FLORAL BEADWORK APPEARS TO BE SUBARCTIC RATHER THAN NORTHWEST COAST?Entered in the original ledger catalog as from the War Department to the National Institute, with a locality of "NW Co Am." Most of this collection was entered into the catalog in 1866-67, but a few items evidently found at later dates were believed to be from the War Dept were so cataloged at later dates. This item is part of a series of five items entered into the catalog in 1874. A number of errors in cataloging have been found in other late entries for acquisitions received from the National Institute, and the identification of the source must be considered uncertain.

FROM CARD: "BLADE OF NEPHRITE. HANDLE OF WOOD, NOTCHED IN ON BOTH SIDES OF THE TOP. REFER TO: GEORGE T. EMMONS:" JADE IN BRIT. COLUMBIA AND ALASKA, & ITS USE BY THE NATIVES, HEYE FOUNDATION, INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS, NO. 35, 1923, N.Y., PP.36-7, ILL.PL.10."

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM WOOD. SURMOUNTED BY A MASK. 9 TEETH."Illus. p. 240, and described on p. 240 and p. 382 in Gilman, Carolyn. 2003. Lewis and Clark across the divide. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. It is noted there: "Combs like this one are sometimes identified as weaving combs, but the Chinook did little weaving and may have used them for grooming and decoration instead. ... Similar combs from farther north were collected on Captain James Cook's expedition in 1778."Peale # 252. Peale catalogue describes #s 251-253 as "Wooden combs made by the natives of Oregon."Carved from a single piece of wood. Rectangular in shape with long, slightly irregular carved teeth. On top of comb is a carved human head with beard and pronounced eyebrows. The face, except around the eyebrows, and top part of comb is colored with red. Eyebrows are colored black.Per Bill Holm - Columbia River up to mid Vancouver Island; more likely Juan de Fuca Strait.

O NO. 88; WOODEN BOAT MODEL-PAINTED.

SMALL CYLINDRICAL TWINED BASKET WITH ROW OF TRIANGLES UNDER RIM AND ZIGZAG DESIGNS. HAS CLALLAM 2136 WRITTEN ON IT AND TAG THAT SAYS CLALLAM 2136 WILKES BUT JANE WALSH SAYS 2136 IS WRONG #. SPECULATIVELY, THIS MAY STILL BE PART OF THE U.S. EXPORING EXPEDITION/WILKES COLLECTION, EVEN IF THE CATALOGUE NUMBER IS WRONG?

List in accession file identifies neither a culture nor a locality for this object. Anthropology catalogue ledger book appears to list a locality of Sitka (perhaps purchased here?) and a culture of Makah for E20896 - 8.

Attributed to U.S. Exploring Expedition/Wilkes collection on the catalogue card, however Jane Walsh doubts that attribution as no Peale number has been identified for this object. Second copy of Anthropology catalogue ledger book has "Clallam Indians, Wash." penciled in as a possible identification sometime post cataloguing by an unknown person.