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

FROM CARD: "23383-6. TRIMMED WITH FUR OF SEA OTTER. 23384-- [negative number] 77-447."Long bark cape with fur trim.

FROM CARD: "USED FOR FOOD BY THE MAKAH INDS. ."

From card: "Rush mat."

FROM CARD: "HEAD-DRESS (QUAI-U-BADDY). - CIRCULAR BAND OF CEDAR-BARK FIBER, 1 1/2 INCHES BROAD, PENDANT BEHIND BEING LONG BUNCHES OF SAME. ON EACH SIDE ARE TWO ERECT TUFTS OF FEATHERS, AND IN FRONT A HORIZONTAL TUFT, WRAPPED WITH FIBER AND RED FLANNEL CLOTH. WORN IN TSIARK OR MEDICINE-DANCE."

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: "Stockings. 1 pair."

From James G. Swan original tag with artifact, now (2008), stored in Anthropology Collections Lab accession file: "No. 1, Model of Makah Whaling canoe, a very fine specimen & true to nature, made by Lechessar, a Makah Indian for U.S. Fish Commission and National Museum, Washington, D.C. From James G. Swan, Port Townsend, Wash. Terr. Sept. 18, 1884. This canoe + Indians represent a whaling scene off Cape Flattery Washington Territory. The whale has gone down, and they are eagerly and intently watching for its reappearance on the surface. If near enough, the harpooner Hetukivad, throws down his paddle, seizes the harpoon and plunges it into the whale, and simultaneously the seal skin buoys and tow line are thrown overboard by the Indian immediately behind the harpooner. The buoys oblige the whale to keep on the surface of the water where he is killed with lances, and towed ashore. J. G. Swan."