FROM CARD: "SAPPORO MUS. 1/26/95."Note, object was catalogued as Port Townsend, Washington, which is where collector Swan was based at that time. The accession record lists "Specimens of table mats from Sitka." as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces, and thus possibly Tlingit?A list in Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 186, Box 11, Distribution 5103, indicates a mat and three baskets catalogue number 13111 were sent as part of an exchange to the Annecy Museum, Haute-Savoie, France, March 1887.

From card: "Imbricated. Designs in black as follows" (see card for drawing of design)An old tag is still attached to basket: "Hudson Bay Fur Company, Inc., Seattle, Wash." The Hudson Bay Fur Company, Seattle, Washington, was a fur and curio shop founded in 1900 by Moritz Gutmann; name changed in 1942 to Alaska Fur Company.

PARTS OF BARK SKIRT, OREGON OR WASHINGTON.

From card: "Round baskets, tapering slightly inward toward flat base of plain plaited weave in flat cedar-bark strips, while sides are in wrapped twining on very thin strips. One [E395520-0] has design in purple of whales and men in boat, while other [E395520-1] is just green and red horizontal bands. One slightly damaged."

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED."A black-brimmed painted basketry hat. Hat is described, p. 57 in Ostapkowicz, Joanna, 2010, "Nuu-chah-nulth and Makah Black-brimmed Hats: Chronology and Style," American Indian Art Magazine, 35(3). [Hat is] " ... a striking example with expansive design elements rendered in black and red, including a large, four-way split oval at the front and a series of featherlike U-forms extending down the back. As with most ... [black-brimmed hats], it is difficult to identify the creature depicted."For more information, see pdf of additional documentation on the Gibbs collections provided by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa which is filed with the Emu accession/transaction record.

FROM CARD: "A PAIR."Peale catalogue identifies these paddles as "Paddles from Pugets sound, and the river Columbia." Catalogue card identifies as from the Northwest Coast.2 dark stained paddles with leaf shaped blades. # 1 of 2 has root/line binding on handle and is marked "Nootka". # 2 of 2 is missing grip end of handle. Tips of blades of both are damaged.

Note that 23518 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 60 of USNM Bulletin No. 18.