As of 2006 there is only one rattle with this number and it is not a leg rattle. Neither object name nor description in remarks as typed on the catalogue card accurately describe this rattle (they more describe objects like # E89189 or E89190?). It seems some kind of mistake was made when the card was typed, because the object name and remarks on card # E89089 appear to describe this rattle. The object name and drawing in the original Anthropology ledger book for E89088 do match this object, so object name has been changed in EMu to match the ledger book entry. - F. Pickering 9-28-2006

TO REV T.L. FLOOD, PA, 1885.From card: "Canoe- and animal-form bowl; wood; carved in relief. From: page 51, Boxes and Bowls catalog; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illus. on same page. Canoe- and animal-form bowl; wood; carved in relief; length: 10 3/4"; Haida; Skidegate, British Columbia. "Seal." Collected by James G. Swan, October 1883."

From card: "Carving represents puffin head and human effigies."

FROM CARD: "TWO HANKS OF HAIR TIED IN HEAVY CORD AND TAGGED "167,740 N.W.C." WERE FOUND IN THE NORTHWEST COAST STORAGE IN MAY, 1966. MICROSCOPIC ANALYSES OF SAMPLES OF THIS HAIR WERE MADE BY THE F.B.I. HAIR AND FIBER LAB., WHICH REPORTED THE HAIR TO BE HUMAN HEAD HAIR OF MONGOLOID ORIGIN."

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1980."

From cards for 2588 and 2589; remarks related to 2588 and 2589 are typed on the backs of the cards for both numbers, starting on the back of card 2588 and continuing to the back of 2589: [card 2588] "Two argillite pipes from the Wilkes collection appear with the #2588 on old USNM photo #1103 (negative destroyed). The legend written in the same old hand as on other Wilkes pieces, in white ink on both specimens reads "2588, U. S. Ex. Ex., Q. Charlotte I.d," the original printed Peale catalogue label number #273 appears in the photograph on one, but it no longer remains on the specimen. The other #2588 still bears the original Peale number #276. These pieces were entered in the museum catalogue on January 8, 1867. The entry for #2588 only calls for 1 specimen. Since that time the "original #273 has been renumbered "8898." The actual "8898" also an argillite pipe, was given to the Smithsonian by Dr. Charles Deselding who collected at Puget Sound. "8898" was entered in the museum catalogue on July 27, 1869. It too appears in photo #1103 with the legend: "8898, C. Deselding, Puget Sound" in white ink and written in the same hand as the "2588" specimens." [card 2589] "Subsequently, "8898" has been figured in Niblack, USNM AR., pl. 47, fig. 364 as "2589" - and as collected by the Wilkes Expedition. That number appears on the specimen today (7/14/1967) as it apparently did in 1888. Therefore, because of photo #1103, the Deselding pipe has been changed back to "8898" - its original number; and the Wilkes specimen (original Peale #273, formerly "2588", now "8898") has been changed to "2589" - since no specimen currently exists with that number nor apparently ever did (for duplicate "2588's must represent a misnumbering error. - William C. Sturtevant and Carole N. Kaufmann July 14, 1967."Jay Stewart and Peter Macnair 7-20-2005 note about this argillite panel pipe that "The implied figurehead, a beaver and the ropes, pulleys and ships rigging suggests this may be a representation of the Hudson's Bay Company steamship, the Beaver." Reference: Fig. 12, p. 45 in Wright, Robin K., 1979, "Haida Argillite Ship Pipes," American Indian Art Magazine, 5(1). Wright identifies as "Abstracted [portrait of S. S.] Beaver pipe with identifying paddle wheels and beaver figurehead. Note diamond-shaped window at rear; much like those in quarter galleries of sailing ships".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.

HAS CATALOG CARD.Per Aaron Glass, this neck ring appears to be one shown in SI photo Negative #77-10036, Photo Lot 24 SPC Nwc Kwakiutl NM No.# Boas 09070500, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, which shows a museum exhibit of a figure group (mannequin life group) of Kwakiutl Hamatsa initiates emerging from a room behind a painted scene. This neck ring seems to be the one on the kneeling figure third from right in the photo. The exhibit was created for the museum by Franz Boas in 1895, using items from the collection. This photo, and a description of how Boas researched and created the exhibit, are in Jonaitis, Aldona. 1988. "From the Land of the Totem Poles: the Northwest Coast Indian Art Collection at the American Museum of Natural History", p. 150. The photo can also be seen online by going to collections.si.edu/search and searching on "NAA INV 09070500". He suspects that the original number for this object this may be E129514, a conspicuously absent Hamat'sa neck ring from Boas's 1886 exchange with the Berlin museum (Acc 19597). "Perhaps its use on the mannequin resulted in its being separated from its [catalog] number".

FROM CARD: "PAINTED BY MR. WALTERS."