FROM CARD: "AN OVAL TAPERING BLOCK OF WOOD DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES ALONG ITS MAJOR AXIS. THE HALVES ARE EXCAVATED SO THAT WHEN LASHED TOGETHER THERE IS A CONTINUOUS AIR CHAMBER FROM UPPER END TO WITHIN A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF LOWER END. THE HALVES ARE LASHED TOGETHER AT UPPER END AND AGAIN HALF WAY OF THE TOTAL LENGTH, WHEN THE SMALL OR MOUTH END IS BLOWN INTO STRONGLY THE PRESSURE CAUSES THE LOWER END TO OPEN AND VIBRATE, ALLOWING THE AIR TO ESCAPE IN PUFFS OR WAVES, CAUSING A HARSH SOUND. THE REV. F. W. GALPIN OF ENGLAND CALLS THIS KIND OF REED THE "RETREATING REED". PROF. MASON HAS GIVEN IT THE NAME "INVERTED DOUBLE REED" WHICH I PREFER. (E.H.H.)"

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "MAT.---WOVEN OF COLORED COTTON AND WOOLEN RAGS; ROUND CORNER. LENGTH 5 FEET. WIDTH 3 FEET 4 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS, WASHINGTON TER., 1876. 23,425. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO E.B. WEBSTER, 1886.

FROM CARD: "ORIGINALLY DESIGNATED WILKES COLLECTION, THIS HAS NO COLLECTOR OR TRIBAL I.D. IN THE CATALOGUE BOOKS."

Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.

From card: "Collected by Capt. H. M. Broadbent on one of the first cruises of the Coast Guard cutter "Bear" about 1895."Catalogue identification may be in error? This object appears to be a halibut hook. Provenience note: Howard Miles Broadbent served on the U.S.S. Bear prior to 1895.