FROM CARD: "CLUB USED FOR KILLING FISH." OBJECT IS ILLUSTRATED ON P. 8 ("B") OF DAVID IVES BUSHNELL, "DRAWINGS BY GEORGE GIBBS IN THE FAR NORTHWEST, 1849-1851," SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 97.8 (1938). - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997. Bushnell identifies club as cedar and indicates it was collected by George Gibbs probably in 1850 or 1851 near the mouth of the Columbia River.Note that club 651 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 52 of USNM Bulletin No. 18. It is described there as a Northwest coast salmon club.For more information, see pdf of additional documentation on the Gibbs collections provided by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa which is filed with the Emu accession/transaction record.

Listed on page 41 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".

From card: "Two hollowed pieces of wood joined. Within are two sounders for the reeds."Listed on page 50 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".

FROM CARD: "FOR FOOD. FUCUS LAMINARIA & C. SEE U.S.N.M. DIST. 5-26-77, EX. PEABODY MUS."

Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.