From card: "Small." Group of thin sticks.

FROM CARD: "...CONSISTS OF 2. 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.One has original Peale number label. More complete tooth is etched with designs in black of triangles filled with horizontal lines.

COILED BASKET WITH IMBRICATION AND BEADING MADE OF CEDAR ROOT, BEARGRASS AND HORSETAIL ROOT. THE RIM CONSTRUCTION IS FALSE BRAID, BOTTOM CONSTRUCTION IS MEANDER COIL WITH BEADING OF BEARGRASS NEAR THE EDGE. THE RIM DESIGN CONSISTS OF SMALL BLACK, SINGLE AND STACKED SQUARES OVER WHITE. THE BODY DESIGN CONSISTS OF A "SNAKE" MOTIF OF TWO BLACK LINES ON FULLY IMBRICATED WHITE BACKGROUND. THERE ARE FOUR BROKEN LEATHER LOOPS ATTACHED TO THE RIM. PUBLICATION: "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," BY VIOLA & MARGOLIS, S.I. PRESS, 1985, P. 144. U.S.N.M. ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1902, ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY, OTIS MASON, FIG. 157, P. 432. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. A NOTE IN THE ORIGINAL S.I. LEDGER READS, "BASKET USED FOR COOKING." ILLUS. FIG. 9, P. 48 AND DISCUSSED P. 47 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984 AND ID THERE AS COILED BERRY BASKET, COWLITZ?, TOTAL IMBRICATION AND WHITE BACKGROUND WITH ZIGZAG PATTERNS CALLED "SNAKE" DESIGN BY MANY OF THE SALISH. PROBABLY COLLECTED FROM COWLITZ ON A TRIP BETWEEN PUGET SOUND AND THE COLUMBIA RIVER IN JUNE 1841.

SMALL BASKET. THIS BASKET HAS AN ORIGINAL PEALE NUMBER ON IT. THERE IS ONE OTHER BASKET WITH #2711 WHICH HAS BEEN CHANGED TO ET20352. BASKETS ET7616, ET20352, AND ET20353 ALL RESEMBLE BASKET E2711.Small cylindrical basket with brown woven design elements. Design includes band of of birds on the rim.

OBJECT IS ILLUSTRATED ON P. 8 ("A") OF DAVID IVES BUSHNELL, "DRAWINGS BY GEORGE GIBBS IN THE FAR NORTHWEST, 1849-1851," SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 97.8 (1938). - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997. Bushnell identifies animal figure on handle as representing a raccoon, Procyon lotor, with the eyes indicated by copper inlays and identifies object as collected by George Gibbs probably in 1850 or 1851. See p. 386 of Gilman, Carolyn; 2003; Lewis and Clark across the divide; Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, where this object is illustrated and described. Identified there as handle for a straight adze, animal leg bone, Chinookan, pre-1850, collected at the mouth of the Columbia River, designed for use with a steel blade. Animal figure carved on the end. The type used for carving canoes.

TWINED, WOOLEN BELT WITH LONG FRINGE AT EITHER END. THE BELT IS WOVEN IN WHITE, RED AND GREEN ZIGZAG PATTERNS. FRINGE AT EITHER END; PUBLICATION: S.I. ANNUAL REPORT, 1928, PL. 13, P. 646. THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN HALL, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1989. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.From card: "Mountain goat. Woven of white, red, and green wools in zigzag pattern; ends fringed. Illus.: ARSI, 1928; Pl. 13; p.646."Reference: Solazzo, C., S. Heald, M.W. Ballard, D.A. Ashford, P.T. DePriest, R.J. Koestler, and M. Collins. 2011. Proteomics and Coast Salish blankets: A tale of shaggy dogs? Antiquity 85: 1418-1432. http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/085/ant0851418.htm . Identified there as a sash belt - main part a tightly woven structure, fringe of identical materials, and braid incorporated in the fringe; braid a blend of Mountain goat hair and Salish wool or woolly dog hair.Illus. Fig. 41, p. 101, in Tepper, Leslie Heymann, Janice George, and Willard Joseph. 2017. Salish Blankets: robes of protection and transformation, symbols of wealth.

FROM CARD: "PERFORATED FOR A HANDLE."Peale catalogue entry on artifact identifies it as: "Part of a deers horn [antler], used as a cross head to a stick for digging roots, by the Indian women in Oregon." Such digging stick handles are often made from elk antler. The handle would have been fitted with a sharpened wood stake and typically used by women to dig roots, clams, and other items. Note that this object is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 148 of USNM Bulletin No. 18.Speculatively, this may have been acquired by the expedition when it was in the Willamette valley of Oregon. Camas root digging sticks are mentioned on p. 234 of "Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition," Charles Wilkes, 1845, Vol. V. If it is from that area, again speculatively, it may be from the Kalapuya.Listed on page 47 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)".