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: "Illust. in USNAM AR, 1888, Pl. 60, fig. 315, p. 330. Made of carved wood in two sections. Two concave convex valves, tied together through holes made in their edges. Ornamented with a carved seated human figure in low relief and other designs. This rattle was formerly owned by "Tsilwak" a medicine man of Gold Harbor, Queen Charlottes Islands, British Columbia [presumed to be New Gold Harbour, a.k.a. Haina, on Maude Island not far from Skidegate?]. Loaned to the Whitney Museum of American Art 9-10-71. Returned to the Department of Anthropology 2-9-72. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22, 1988. Loan returned Jan 21, 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents Catalogue; Fig. 378, p. 275. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 12c, pg. 250." Crossroads of Continents catalogue caption identifies as: Shaman's rattle, Haida. "Globular rattles were used by shamans all over the northern coast to combat evil spirits. Both sides of this rattle portray crouching figures, the center one with a beaklike nose, surrounded by others with long U-shaped fins stretching from their heads. The meaning of these figures, like most shamanic art, is derived from supernatural experiences and cannot be deciphered without information from the owner, who in this case was Tsilwax, a shaman from new Gold Harbor in the Queen Charlotte Islands."

NW COAST; 4 ARROWS, IRON POINTS, FEATHERED.

From card: "Represents two sides of a canoe; parts hinged at bottom and a hole there for placing on support. Apparently the sides are intended to clap together making a loud noise."

From card: "Rectangular black slate box with cover, on a cedar wood base. Lined with paper pages from "Young Ladies Journal." Figures are said to represent: killerwhale, bear, wolf."March 3, 2011, Robin K. Wright, Burke Museum, attributes to Zacherias Nicholas, also known as the "Master of the Chicago Settee".Listed on page 45 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)".

TIGHTLY WOVEN, SINGLE-PAIR WRAPPED TWINE CONICAL HAT, PROBABLY MADE OF SPRUCE ROOT. THE LOWER HALF OF THE HAT IS DECORATED WITH A WOVEN DESIGN BY WEFT ON ONE AND TWO WARPS. THERE IS A CAP WOVEN ON THE INTERIOR OF THE HAT FOR A CLOSER FIT. THIS PEALE NUMBER HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED TO THIS CATALOGUE NUMBER FOR PURPOSES OF IDENTIFICATION.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.For small illustration see Hat 109, p. 221 in Glinsmann, Dawn. 2006. Northern Northwest Coast spruce root hats. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. A detail showing four-strand embedded braid is also illustrated Fig. 60, p. 91. Glinsmann identifies as Haida style of manufacture.