Exhibited on female mannequin at Chicago World's Fair of 1893. See National Anthropological Archives Manuscript # 7217, entry on Figure No. 8, where it is listed (and exhibited) as same number/forming a set with # E1701 parka.From card for ET1611 (written before it was known that this was part of catalog number E1701): "Brown deerskin pants, low-slung, with wide cuffs of white caribou fur. Bottom of leg edged with narrow brown and white strips, and fur fringe. Tassels of fur running lengthwise down front of each leg. Tag reading "Chicago #8, 1701-2967". Writing on inside, partially worn off, indicating this is part of MacFarlane collection. Loan [with temporary catalog number ET1611]: Crossroads Sep 22 1988 - returned from loan 6-25-91. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 41, p. 42."Formerly tracked with temporary number ET1611, because the correct catalog number was unknown at the time. A tag in the trousers says "Chicago #8, 1701-2967", which seems correct. Museum catalog number 1701 (or E1701) was field number 2967 (the ledger book confirms this) which was a woman's parka and pants exhibited together as a set at the Chicago World's Fair (according to National Anthropological Archives Manuscript # 7217, entry on Figure No. 8). Catalog number 1701 has long been missing the pants -- possibly since the ledger entry was written, since it makes no mention of them and has a count of 1 (in other words, the pants were missing or overlooked during cataloging). The existence of pants is mentioned in the notes on the catalog card, but only the parka was found during the 1975 inventory and 1980s move to MSC. Meanwhile, this pair of pants was found, but there was confusion about which number it belonged to (1701 already being accounted for with the parka) and so it was temporarily tracked as ET1611. As of now, it seems pretty certain that this is part of catalog number 1701, and so it is being tracked as # E1701-1.

Identified as a graver based on resemblance to other gravers in the MacFarlane collection. See Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), which has general information on gravers here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/27: Gravers with iron tips held in bone and antler shafts were used for engraving designs on ivory, bone antler and wood.

Rectangular box; no top/lid present. Card indicates this is Inuit made.E7830 is listed, but not described or analyzed, in Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/136 , retrieved 2-11-2020. General information on boxes available here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/12: The MacFarlane collection contains a variety of wooden boxes. Boxes carved from single pieces of wood, and boxes with sides made from bent pieces of wood with bottoms pegged to them, are traditional Inuvialuit forms that were used for storing tools and other objects. Boxes with separate pieces for each side, bottom and top identified in the Smithsonian Institution's artifact catalogue as 'Packing Box Made by Esquimaux' may have been commissioned by MacFarlane for packing artifacts that were sent to the Smithsonian.

From card: ""Obtained by Chittenden from an Indian Chief of Kokcilla Tribe at their village on Vancouver Island, British Columbia; Explorations of 1888. The 9 figures carved thereon represent the legendary and mythologic characters of northwestern natives. Made from slate deposit A.C. Is., B.C." Removed from Exhibits, Hall 21, Case 86, 11-13-[19]86."

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".Old cloth label with artifact also references mat needle # E130971.

Originally thought to have been made by people from the Klamath River region (Hupa, Yurok, or Karok) of northern California, later identified (by Margaret S Mathewson from Oregon State) as from the Siletz Reservation in coastal Oregon and from the turn of the century or late 1880s.Large, barrel-shaped basket with lid, probably a storage basket. Diagonal or 3-strand twined base with single-twined body. Two horizontal bands of white grass overlay with black triangles of maidenhair fern stem. Row of openwork just below rim, where pairs of warp elements have been crossed to form decorative x's. Two rows of single twining at the rim. The lid is bowl shaped, with one horizontal band of overlay matching that of the basket.The Confederated Tribes of Siletz include Clatsop, Chinook, Klickitat, Molala, Kalapuya, Tillamook, Alsea, Siuslaw/Lower Umpqua, Coos, Coquelle, Upper Umpqua, Tututni, Chetco, Tolowa, Takelma, Galice/Applegate, and Shasta.

A contemporary Tlingit-style wooden halibut hook carved by Leslie Isaacs (Native name: Tsaandaay/Ts'aang Gaay), a Haida craftsman, in Craig, Prince of Wales Alaska in March 2013 and commissioned by Jonathan Malindine for educational purposes. It is an example of the kinds of hooks that were produced and used by both Tlingit and Haida peoples of Southeast Alaska. The name of the artifact in the local language is náxw (Lingít [Tlingit]), or ýagw táawaay (Xaad kil [Haida]). Such hooks were used by the people of the Northwest Coast to catch large halibut. Bait was tied at the intersection of the two wooden elements. Fished just off the ocean floor, a biting halibut will become hooked when the barb is embedded into its head. This hook has been carved from red cedar and yellow cedar and has a deer bone spike (Sitka black-tailed deer, Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis). Jonathan Malindine comments that hooks such as this one are now only rarely used for fishing. Their "function now is primarlly decorative, while production is an act of connection to cultural heritage." He notes that usually the upper element (i.e. non-barbed, wooden section) is carved with various motifs and figures. This object represents a standard, perhaps utilitarian, exammple of a traditional Northwest Coast halibut hook. The fish hook was sent to SI wrapped in a tan soft leather which is included in storage with the object, but may not have any cultural significance.

FROM CARD: "1ST HEAD LAGAE OF NANGES TRIBE. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 179; P. 522."

From card: "Marked 'Coburn's, 1912.' Oval, coiled. Apparently made [?] by Mrs. Ben Philips, Julia Abraham's daughter."This basket has an old tag with it which says: "Mrs. Ben Philips, Julia Abraham's daughter, Coburn's 1912 SZM." It is unclear if Mrs. Philips would be the maker of the basket or a former owner. The back of this tag has the number 42. See also related object E360925, which has a similar tag, but is identified as Klickitat. See also E360330 which has a label which also references Coburn's.Basket identified as Southern Puget Sound, Cowlitz style? by Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 11-6-2007.

From card: "Vee shaped designs in black and chocolate color."This basket has an old tag with it which says: "Mrs. Ben Philips, Julia Abraham's daughter - 1907 The Coburns AZMM". It is unclear if Mrs. Philips would be the maker of the basket or a former owner. The back of this tag has the number 36. See also related object E360926, which has a similar tag, but has been identified as Thompson River Salish or Southern Puget Sound, Cowlitz style? See also E360330 which has a label which also references Coburn's.