From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Rather coarse weave; white is seaweed black also, other material dyed grass cedar bark and rush."

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BASKET STRAP.---WOVEN OF YARN AND RAGS OF VARIOUS COLORS. A PLAITED ROPE ATTACHED TO EACH END OF THE STRAP. USED TO FACILITATE THE CARRYING OF HEAVILY LADEN BASKETS. THE ROPES ARE FASTENED TO THE BASKET, WHICH IS HELD UPON THE BACK BY THE STRAP, EXTENDING OVER FOREHEAD OF THE CARRIER. WIDTH, 6 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS (SALISHAN STOCK), WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 23,470. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. 1876."E23472, ET14189, and E23470 are visible in a display case at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, as part of the Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum exhibits in the United States Government Building, featuring "American Aboriginal Handicraft Types of Weaving" presented by Department of Anthropology. USNM Neg. No. 13764. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62A, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62A_F12_003. https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_401053 .

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