A wooden panel pipe or ship pipe. 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.FROM CARD: "IVORY AND WOOD."

From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Raphia; designs birds on side."

FROM CARD: "23383-6. TRIMMED WITH FUR OF SEA OTTER. 23386 -- [negative number] 77-444." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BLANKET.--MADE OF BARK, AND TRIMMED WITH FUR OF THE SEA OTTER AND A WOVEN BORDER OF GRAY HAIR. MAKAH INDIANS (WAKASHAN STOCK), NEAH BAY, WASHINGTON, 1876. 23,386. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."Catalog card seems to indicate that catalog number 23386 applies to only one blanket. However, 2 are found in the collection with this number (now part numbers E23386-0 and E23386-1). Perhaps one is misnumbered.

NO. 103 E.H. HARRIMAN; MISCELLANEOUS CARVED AND PAINTED BROKEN AND DISASSOCIATED WOOD PIECES FROM NWC MASKS; 1 TRAY OF PIECES.

From card: "See: Proc. U.S.N.M., V. 15, (1892), Pl. 24, p. 221. The two eyes on this mask are Chinese coins (temple coins?); human hair fringe; opercula for teeth. Bears tag: 'Mask. Mythological being.' Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 6, pg. 123. Loan: R. H. Lowie Museum 12/31/64, Retd.: Feb. 15, 1966. Loan: Whitney Museum of American Art, Sept. 10, 1971, Retd: 2-9-72. LoanL Crossroads Sep 22, 1988. Loan Returned: Jan. 21, 1993. Illus. Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 442, p. 307." Identified in Crossroads catalogue: "the staring eyes in this old shaman's mask are made of large bronze Chinese 'temple coins' embossed with dragon and foliate forms. ... (coins possibly acquired from shipwreck or trade). In any case, they do well as mystic eyes in the round hollow sockets of a beaked humanoid spirit face, grinning with power."Catalogue card identifies object as from Sitka, however, on p. 221 of "Chinese Relics in Alaska" by T. Dix Bolles, in Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, Vol. 15, No. 899, 1892, Bolles talks about the provenance of this mask: "The grave from which it was taken is located near the Chilkat Village at the mouth of the Chilkat River, Alaska, where stand a row of six gravehouses on a narrow strip of land close to the river, with a swamp back of them. ... The grave ... was pointed out to me as being old and that of a medicine man who had flourished more than two hundred years ago, six successors having filled this office; each one living to a good old age."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.

FROM CARD: "EXHIBIT HALL 9, 1987. IDENTIFIED IN EXHIBIT LABEL AS HUMAN-EAGLE MASK, COLLECTED AT THE VILLAGE OF BELLA-BELLA IN 1875. DANCING MASK REPRESENTING BIRD. ILLUS. IN BAE 3RD AR, PL. XVI, FIGS. 28-9, P. 176."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) 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. This mask is a humanoid, it's a human ancestor to be danced in the potlatch. The mask depicts human eyebrows and eye sockets, but instead of a nose and lips, it has a beak. It is carved out of alder wood.