CIRCULAR LIDDED BASKET WITH STRAIGHT SIDES. PLAITED BASE OF CEDAR BARK AND GRASS. SIDES OF CLOSED WRAP TWINING WITH WARP OF CEDAR BARK AND AND WRAPPED WEFT OF BEAR GRASS. RIM OF 1 CM. WIDE STRIP OF CEDAR BARK. LID ORNAMENTED WITH SPIRAL DESIGN IN RED, BROWN, AND BLACK WRPA TWINING. SIDES ORNAMENTED WITH PARALLEL BANDS IN RED, BROWN, AND BLACK WRAP TWINING. CULTURAL IDENTIFICATION BY LINDA EISENHART, MUSEUM SPECIALIST, DEPT. OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 1986.

Stored Tlingit. Cylindrical; false embroidery.

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".

FRONT-PIECE FOR HEADDRESS. A FLAT PIECE OF WOOD CARVED AND PAINTED IN REPRESENTATION OF A HUMAN FIGURE. WORN IN CEREMONIAL DANCES.

Illus. Fig. 72 p. 71 in Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Identitied there as prehistoricTlingit stone snake-beast with red pigments.

FROM CARD: REPRESENTS BIRD HEAD; PAINTED IN RED, BLACK AND GREEN." ILLUS. IN BAE BULLETIN 124, PL. 13A, AFTER P. 24. SEE P. 25 IN THAT PUBLICATION WHERE OBJECT IS IDENTIFIED AS A DANCE HELMET REPRESENTING A RAVEN MADE BY JIM HUNTER, A CLAYOQUOT LIVING AT NEAH BAY. - F. PICKERING 7-7-2000

FROM CARD: "8/17/66: INVENTORIED."These objects are Peale # 134. Peale numbers 132 - 134 are described as "Bows and arrows used by the natives of the northwest coast of America, near Fort Simpson, presented by the officers of the Hon. Hudson Bay Comp [Hudson's Bay Company]."Bow and 13 arrows. Bow has original Peale # label 134 and is marked "by R. P. Robinson Ex Ex V".