FROM CARD: "NAME: *COIL WHALING ROPE. REMARKS: MADE OF SPRUCE ROOTS. *12/13/66 HARPOON HEAD SHEATH LOCATED WITH THIS NUMBER. GP."SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO E. LOVETT, GREAT BRITAIN. 1889.

FROM CARD: "23355-6. VERY LARGE. 23356 EX. G. T. EMMONS APRIL 28/04. PRINCETON,N. J."

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.

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM BLOCK OF CLAY SLATE." (DUPLICATE. COPIED FROM CATALOG).Argillite clay-type pipe with long stem; two figures with bone heads sit on either side of bowl, with their outstretched arms and legs around the bowl.It may be presumed that this object was probably collected by Dr. John Evans during his surveying in Oregon and Washington Territories and Vancouver Island, 1851-1852 or 1853-1856?

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "RAG CARPET.---WOVEN BY CLALLAM ... [WOMEN] IN NATIVE FRAME AND WITH NATIVE APPARATUS. CLALLAM INDIANS (SALISHAN STOCK), WASHINGTON. 23,429. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. THIS SPECIMEN IS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE SURVIVAL OF ANCIENT ABORIGINAL STITCH AND TECHNIQUE ON MATERIALS USED BY THE WHITE MAN. THE WORK IS DONE IN "TWINED WEAVING" A PROCESS UNKNOWN AMONG CIVILIZED [sic] PEOPLES."