FROM CARD: "23483-487. -23483 CARVED IN RELIEF; PAINTED BLACK & RED; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA. -23485 PUTNAM 5/88. -23487 CARVED IN RELIEF; PAINTED BLACK & RED."

FROM CARD: "DUPLICATED IN 1898 BY #178981."

From card: "Coiled, imbricated basket with cover attached. There is an old piece of brass worked into the basket to serve as a catch."Basket was purchased by Victor Evans from Grace Nicholson in 1919; Nicholson # 6036. See copy of Evans correspondence with Nicholson, dated June 19, 1919, filed in the Anthropology Collections Lab accession file; original of correspondence is part of the Grace Nicholson Papers and Addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; see online finding aid https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf787005cq/ . A small label glued on bottom of basket, presumably from Grace Nicholson, says "6036 Cowichan old."

FROM CARD: "LIGHTNING TOMANAWOS. COLLECTOR'S LEGEND: "THE HAK TAKE TO AK, OR LIGHTNING TAMANAWOS OF THE MAKAH INDIANS OF CAPE FLATTERY, W. T. THE BIRD ON THE FRONT IS THE CLOVIS OR THUNDERBIRD. THE BACK I SUPPOSE IS THE WHALE AND THE ENDS THE PRIVATE HERALDRY SIGNS OF CERTAIN CHIEFS. THUNDERCLOUDS ARE SUPPOSED BY THE COAST TRIBES TO BE UNIVERSE BIRDS AND LIGHTNING TO BE A FABULOUS ANIMAL LIKE THE SEAHORSE WHICH THE BIRD COLLECTS FROM THE OCEAN IN GREAT NUMBERS. SHE KEEPS CONCEALED AMONG HER FEATHERS. THUNDER IS CAUSED BY THE FLAPPING OF ITS WINGS AND LIGHTNING BY ITS DARTING DOWN, ETC. HAH TAKE TO AK WITH ITS FIREY TONGUE. PORT TOWNSEND, W. T. J. G. SWAN 1861".Some of the motifs carved and painted on this stone are similar in style to the ones depicted in a drawing/watercolor done by James G. Swan, dated November 29, 1859 and titled "Thunder Bird of the Makahs from the Tamanous [i.e. tomanawos] board in the house of the late Yellicom or Flattery Jack". This drawing is illustrated on p. 76 of Miles, George A., James Gilchrist Swan, Franz Stenzel, and Kathryn M. Stenzel. 2003. James Swan, cha-tic of the Northwest Coast: drawings and watercolors from the Franz & Kathryn Stenzel collection of western American art. New Haven, Conn: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. The drawing is also discussed on pp. 22 of this publication.