FROM CARD: "PLAIN, UNDECORATED."

FROM CARD: "TRANSFERRED IN 1870. ILLUS. IN BAE AR #3, PL. 21, FIG. 48, P. 187."

Ruth Demmert, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. The design on this drum is not Tlingit and the elders commented they had not seen anything like it before. The handle and design of this object is unusual in comparison to similar Tlingit made objects.

May be Sitka Tlingit?: it is identified as collected in Sitka; and also see accession history re the basket part of this accession being from the "Sitka-Kwahn."

FROM CARD; "DEPOSITED." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "CAT. NOS. 666; 2139; 2141-2143; 2711, COLLECTED BY CAPT. CHARLES WILKES, U.S.N., AND GEORGE GIBBS. BASKETRY OF NORTHWESTERN SALISHAN TRIBES. TEXTURE IN THE BIRD-CAGE STITCH COMMON TO THIS AREA. THERE IS A VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL ELEMENT OF COARSE TWINE, AND THESE ARE HELD TOGETHER BY A WHIPPING OF GRASS, IN NATURAL COLOR AND DYED. GEOMETRIC DESIGNS AND ANIMAL FIGURES SERVE AS ORNAMENTS."

From card: "The Quileute Indians learned the make of these baskets some 40 years ago [i.e. about 40 years prior to 1917]. Loop edge; star pattern."

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.In 2023, Paz Nunez-Regueiro, Head of the Americas collection at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac indicated that an object with this number is in their collections, now as catalog number 71.1885.78.258. Anthropology does not have a record of when/how this artifact left the collections. The Branly identifies it as part of an 1885 accession presumably to the Trocadero Museum.

Identified as of probable Makah manufacture by Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, 3-2003