FROM CARD: "HEAD-DRESS (QUAI-U-BADDY). - CIRCULAR BAND OF CEDAR-BARK FIBER, 1 1/2 INCHES BROAD, PENDANT BEHIND BEING LONG BUNCHES OF SAME. ON EACH SIDE ARE TWO ERECT TUFTS OF FEATHERS, AND IN FRONT A HORIZONTAL TUFT, WRAPPED WITH FIBER AND RED FLANNEL CLOTH. WORN IN TSIARK OR MEDICINE-DANCE."

FROM CARD: "CONSISTS OF 5... FOR STUDY & RETURN: MR. STEWART CULIN. UNIVERSITY OF PENN., PHILA, PA. MARCH 24, 1897."Peale catalogue identifies as "Dice made of beaver teeth, used by the natives of Oregon in playing a native game." See "NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION," VOL. IV, P. 392, CHARLES WILKES, 1845.Reference: "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, Smithsonian Institution. 1907. Twenty-fourth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology: to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1902-1903. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O. On pp. 155-156, Culin discusses the use of beaver teeth dice by the tribes of Puget Sound and British Columbia. On pp. 137-138 he describes woodchuck teeth dice used by the Kamath of Oregon.The two more complete teeth are etched with dark zigzag lines forming triangular designs.

Provenience note: many objects in the Chirouse collection were catalogued as Duwamish, however that really only seems to definitively apply to Catalogue No. 130965. Accession record indicates that the collection is the "handiwork of the Snohomish, Swinomish, Lummi, Muckleshoot and Etakmur Indians on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington Territory".From card: "Stockings. 1 pair."

From James G. Swan original tag with artifact, now (2008), stored in Anthropology Collections Lab accession file: "No. 1, Model of Makah Whaling canoe, a very fine specimen & true to nature, made by Lechessar, a Makah Indian for U.S. Fish Commission and National Museum, Washington, D.C. From James G. Swan, Port Townsend, Wash. Terr. Sept. 18, 1884. This canoe + Indians represent a whaling scene off Cape Flattery Washington Territory. The whale has gone down, and they are eagerly and intently watching for its reappearance on the surface. If near enough, the harpooner Hetukivad, throws down his paddle, seizes the harpoon and plunges it into the whale, and simultaneously the seal skin buoys and tow line are thrown overboard by the Indian immediately behind the harpooner. The buoys oblige the whale to keep on the surface of the water where he is killed with lances, and towed ashore. J. G. Swan."

From card: "Inlaid with shell. Cedar, hand hewn, painted."