CEDAR BARK BLANKET WITH SEA OTTER FUR TRIM ON UPPER BORDER. THE WEFT IS DOUBLE, 2 SINGLE-PLAIN TWINE. THE WEFT IS A WHITE CORD, THE SINGLE-PAIR WRAPPED TWINE FORMS A 3 CM. BAND. THIS MAY HAVE BEEN RECATALOGUED CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT IT IS WITHIN A 14,000 SERIES. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTROY, 1985-86. PEALE # 316. MAY FORMERLY HAVE BEEN CATALOGUE NO. 2556.Peale catalogue entry under # 316 lists 315-318 as "Dresses worn by the women of the Classet tribe of natives, Northwest Coast of America, they are made of bark."

FROM CARD: "MATTING.---WOVEN OF RUSHES. LENGTH 17 FEET 6 INCHES. WIDTH 2 FEET 2 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS, WASHINGTON TER., 1876. 23,434. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 3 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List also identifies object as "Horn of the mountain goat in preparation of manufacture for spoon handle. It has been partially shaped and roughly cut, and is now ready to be worked down and ornamentally carved."

FROM CARD: "MAPLE? MADE BY MAKAH INDIANS. *SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD, HOLLOWED OUT, OVAL, MAN'S FACE ON ONE END, ALSO ARMS; FISH HEAD ON OTHER END. ON ONE SIDE OF THE RIM A SECTION HAS BEEN CHEWED OUT."Inscription on bottom of object: "Dish for holding food; Makah Indians; Neeah Bay W. T.; Jan 1864; J G Swann."

Anthropology Conservation Lab records identify as a small Northwest Coast circular twined basketry mat; red, green, black designs; imbricated. Stored Tlingit.