From card: "For clams."

A FLAT POUCH, ROUNDED AT THE BOTTOM, SQUARE AT THE TOP, MADE OF BLUE AND RED FELTED CLOTH SEWN ONTO TANNED HIDE. THERE IS BLUE FELT EDGING ALL AROUND. APPLIQUE IN BLUE ON RED AND RED ON BLUE, EACH BORDERED WITH WHITE GLASS BEADS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO OLD SHIPPING TAG READS, "N.W.C. BY E. VERY, EX EX 36 BOX". EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast and other artifacts collected by the expedition. This bag has been stored with the Tlingit collections, but may also possibly be Subarctic (Tahltan?? etc.)

FROM CARD: "TWO HANKS OF HAIR TIED IN HEAVY CORD AND TAGGED "167,740 N.W.C." WERE FOUND IN THE NORTHWEST COAST STORAGE IN MAY, 1966. MICROSCOPIC ANALYSES OF SAMPLES OF THIS HAIR WERE MADE BY THE F.B.I. HAIR AND FIBER LAB., WHICH REPORTED THE HAIR TO BE HUMAN HEAD HAIR OF MONGOLOID ORIGIN."