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: "Found in swamps. Used to paint canoe paddles and the face."

LEDGER, CATALOG CARD SAY 1/9 SENT TO LEIDEN, HOLLAND. 1899. SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY 1/9 SENT TO AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, 1885.See Cat. 116 p. 1194 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is on a halibut hook, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.225, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E73741.

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

Columbia River/Wasco/Wishram style horn bowl.

From card for E313109A and B: "Fishing bag (A) with club (B) called Halibut club. It is used to kill the fish after they are caught."

LEDGER, CATALOG CARD AND SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY 1/2 SENT TO PEABODY MUSEUM, HARVARD, MASS. 1887.

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.