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, WOOD ETC. NEG. NO. 1099 INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FIVE CATALOG NUMBERS: 2606, 2600, 2603, 2607 AND 2599."Illus. Fig. 15, p. 46 in Wright, Robin K., 1979, "Haida Argillite Ship Pipes," American Indian Art Magazine, 5(1). Identified there as a wooden ship pipe: "Pipe of wood, paint, paper, glass, whalebone, metal. Has paddle wheel with inlaid paper behind the billethead, a horse, rider and wagon, picket fence, floral and palm tree motifs."Object on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Objects of Wonder", 2017.

SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, 1885. [This seems unlikley, as the object is still in the museum, and no such exchange is listed in the ledger books or cards. Wrong number?]

FROM CARD: "PAINTED. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 218. 20,807. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED FEB 8 1988.LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.430, P.303. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 7 LEFT, PG. 245. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads of Continents caption identifies this as: "Painted skin robe, Haida. The squatting semihuman beings painted on this fringed skin robe have toothed mouths, clawed hands, and pierced (or eyed) palms - features also seen in Eskimo and Tlingit art. The border design, probably a sea lion, is a bilaterally symmetrical split image of a single beast. Axial symmetry, also seen in the central figures, is an important principle in Northwest Coast and Old Bering Sea art. Skin robes of this type may have been the predecessors of the appliqued button blanket, their ornamented borders equivalent to the latter's red flannel, button-decorated borders."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies this object as Swan original # 51. List in accession file identifies #51 as "1 buckskin dancing shawl, Haidah Indian at Howkan village Prince of Wales Island [sic, Howkan is on Long Island] Alaska."

REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983. "MANUFACTURED BY ANTHRO LAB."Ledger book says that the mortar is Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) and from Alaska (an apparent mismatch), but the original mortar, catalog number 220185, has been re-identified as possibly Tlingit and/or from Skeena River, BC. See catalog number 220185.

From card: "This is one of the two unpainted ones. Carved. Refer to: 231036 [card] for collecting data."

FROM CARD: "CUT IN TWO. HOUSE FRONT. (TSIMSIAN) PAINTED BY MR. WALTERS. 5 MAY 1966: THIS SPECIMEN MISSING FROM COLLECTION. GEP. 9 MAY 1966: SPECIMEN RELOCATED. GEP."

FROM CARD: "ONE BLACK AND 1 WHITE. COLLECTED BY DR. A. H. HOFF, U. S. A."

Catalog number 88960 [part numbers E88960-0 through E88960-3] are four hats of a similar style. One of the four hats is illustrated (small) as Hat 112, p. 221 in Glinsmann, Dawn. 2006. Northern Northwest Coast spruce root hats. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Only 1 hat of 4 on loan (E088960-3).Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact (called E88960A) http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=626 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Hat This woven spruce-root hat, made at the village of Masset in the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, is not painted with clan designs and was probably made for everyday wear and rain protection. Roots for weaving are roasted in a fire, stripped of their bark, split into strands, and softened by soaking in water. "The Elders gathered the spruce roots, and when they were ready to quit they sang a song... The first one who started the song would go down and start the fire for the spruce root, the cooking of the spruce root…Then the next group would sing and they would be the ones who would help get the kindling. And it would go clear around, and when it reached the last ones they all went down the beach then and started the cooking…We pulled the roots through a stick that was forked, and that took the outer skin off." - Delores Churchill, 2005

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)".