REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST, 1983.

From card: "Pestle hammer of stone. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 1d, pg. 2." Identified in Handbook caption as pecked stone hand maul, phallic shape.

Listed on page 47 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)".

FROM CARD: "ONE PAW IS BROWN AND MEASURES 9" LONG. THE OTHER IS GREY AND 11" LONG. BOTH ARE LABELLED U. AMERICANUS [American black bear = Ursus americanus]."

From card: "Dyed, large." Group of thin sticks.

A wooden panel pipe or ship pipe. Has original Peale # label. Written on this pipe in old handwriting: "N. W. Coast Ex. Ex. by R. R. Waldron." This may mean that Richard Russell Waldron, purser, USS Vincennes, was the collector of this pipe.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: "WOOD INLAID WITH IVORY."

FROM CARD: "TWO BUNDLES. DEPOSITED."For more information, see pdf of additional documentation on the Gibbs collections provided by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa which is filed with the Emu accession/transaction record.

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BONE CARVING.---REPRESENTS A WOMAN WRAPPED IN BLANKET; HAS LABRET. HAIDAH INDIANS. QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 23,411. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM CEDAR WOOD, BIRD AT END OF HANDLE."