FROM CARD: "INNER BARK OF WHITE CEDAR. WORN IN WET WEATHER. DANISH NATL MU 1868."Records in the SI Archives of the Office of Distribution (and catalog card) say this was transferred to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1867, but apparently either this is incorrect or it was later returned to the Museum.

4; LARGE TWINED BASKET WITH SKIN THONGS. Stored Tlingit.

PEALE # 301. CHIEF'S HEADDRESS WITH A CAP MADE OF DEER SKIN, AND A FRONTLET WHICH IS AN INLAID AND PAINTED MASK. THERE IS A LONG CLOTH TRAILER AT THE BACK, AND THE REMAINS OF FEATHERS, THE QUILLS AND DOWN AROUND THE TOP AND SIDES. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, ALSO WRITTEN ON MASK "NOOTKA SOUND, JL FOX". VIOLA & MARGOLIS, "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1985, ILLUS. P. 141. THIS FRONTLET & HEADDRESS WERE RECATALOGUED WITH #72969, & A NOTATION READS, "REENTERED, SEPTEMBER 24, 1883"- THE PIECE NO LONGER HAS THIS NUMBER IN IT, BUT RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL NUMBERS. THIS RECATALOGING WAS APPARENTLY DONE AFTER THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION IN PHILADELPHIA. ON THE RETURN PERHAPS ITS TAG HAD BEEN LOST. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.FROM CARD: "INLAID WITH ABALONE SHELL. MARKED "NOOTKA SOUND" WITH ORIGINAL NUMBER. HOWEVER, THE ORIGINAL NUMBER APPEARS TO BE 301 NOT 296. ACCORDING TO THE 'PEALE' CATALOG THIS SHOULD BE 296 [?]."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. The fact that this is marked "Nootka sound.", i.e. possibly Nootka?, is evidence for the HBC as the source of this mask.

From card: "Obtained through contact with Quinault Indians. Cross-warp-twine work, called by the Quileutes "lace basket". Loop edge. Gay color splints drawn through upright warps."

FROM CARD: "AN OVAL TAPERING PIECE OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES. THE HALVES ARE EXCAVATED SIMILAR TO 20,698 AND FITTED WITH A LARGE OVAL SEED MADE OF PINE. THE MOUTH PIECE IS REDUCED IN SIZE TO BETTER FIT THE LIPS. SHALLOW GROOVES ARE MADE IN THE OUTSIDE TO KEEP THE LASHINGS ONE OF SPRUCE ROOT. THE JOINTS ARE MADE TIGHT WITH PITCH OR GUN"Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) 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. It's a single reed with hide and spruce root binding. On the end it's sap. It has a red cedar chamber, spruce root, tan hide binding and burlap sack helping it hold the reed in place. The reed itself looks like red or yellow cedar. It might be pine, but not the chamber.

FROM CARD: "#175523 FITS ON TOP OF THIS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 38; P. 415. COLLECTOR'S TAG: DGUNA AFTER HE TURNED INTO MAN FROM THUNDER BIRD. NO. 33 FITS ON THE HEAD OF THIS ONE. SHOWED BY THE GAMGAMTALAT NAMIMAT."Catalogued as collected in a Tsimshian area, but not typical Tsimshian style, and object is illustrated by Boas in USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 38; P. 415 as Kwakiutl. Also, #175523, which is identified as fitting on top of this, is identified as Kwakiutl.Mask Representing G'a'mtalal.

FROM CARD: "SPOON.---BOWL OF SHEEP HORN, HANDLE OF GOAT HORN ORNAMENTED WITH CARVED TOTEMIC DESIGNS. THE BOWL IS SHAPED BY STEAMING THE HORN IN A WOODEN MOULD.THE HANDLE IS FASTENED TO THE BOWL WITH COPPER RIVETS. LENGTH, 8 3/4 INCHES; WIDTH OF BOWL, 2 1/2 INCHES. SITKA INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 20,749. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."