A FLAT POUCH, ROUNDED AT THE BOTTOM, SQUARE AT THE TOP, MADE OF BLUE AND RED FELTED CLOTH SEWN ONTO TANNED HIDE. THERE IS BLUE FELT EDGING ALL AROUND. APPLIQUE IN BLUE ON RED AND RED ON BLUE, EACH BORDERED WITH WHITE GLASS BEADS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO OLD SHIPPING TAG READS, "N.W.C. BY E. VERY, EX EX 36 BOX". EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.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 and other artifacts collected by the expedition. This bag has been stored with the Tlingit collections, but may also possibly be Subarctic (Tahltan?? etc.)

From card: "Repaired by Anthropological Laboratory - 10/4/43." A note on the card for basket 383141 indicates that it was used to repair basket 383142.

From card: "Made of heavy micaceous schist; made in shape of ulu with hole for grip but too heavy and blunt; has the appearance of having been made quite recently. Illus. in The Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1973, p. 197. [Identified there as possibly a chopper.] The collector had thought this was from the Kolushan people."

List in accession file includes "7. Carved stone doll heads dressed a la Chilcaht" [i.e. Chilkat]. This entry seems to refer to E75495 - 51, all of which were originally catalogued as stone doll heads dressed. Catalogue cards were later corrected to ivory instead of stone for E75495 - 50.