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: "PAINTED RED."Originally cataloged as "Model Of Canoe And Mats (2)" but only 3 model paddles remain in the collection.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 24TH AR, FIG. 260, P. 196; ALSO IN USNM REPT, 1896; FIG. 94; P. 767. FOR STUDY & RETURN: MR. STEWART CULIN UNIVERSITY OF PENN., PHILA. PA. MARCH 24, 1897." Stewart Culin identifies dice as beaver teeth dice.

From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Grass and cedar root. Openwork bands on solid weaving birds in black."

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "DAGGERS OF THE CLALLAM INDIANS (SALISHAN STOCK). BLADE, LEAF-SHAPED, MADE OF OLD FILES. HILT, OF BONE, IN TWO PLACES RIVETED. OPEN AND FLAT TANG. THE GRIP IS SIMPLY CUT AWAY SLIGHTLY TO FORM A PLACE FOR THE HAND. IN ONE EXAMPLE A LOOP OF BRASS OCCUPIES THE PLACE OF A POMMEL. WASHINGTON STATE. 18,920; 23,348; 23,349. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

From card: "Relics [sic] of Napoleon, Skokomish Chief." Note that accession record entry on these artifacts identifies Napoleon as Snohomish.Catalogue card records these as called "Flanks", however this word looks more like "Tlanks" in Anthropology Catalogue ledger book. 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: "DEEP SEA & WAR. WITH MODELS OF 4 OCCUPANTS. THOUGH THIS IS CALLED FLATHEAD, IT IS FROM THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST OF WASHINGTON, MAKAH OR NOOTKA TO WHOM THE NAME FLATHEAD WAS ONLY SELDOM APPLIED AND NOT IN ITS USUAL FORM TO THE INTERIOR PEOPLES."

From card: "All imbrication, suggested through contact with Quinault (Salish.) Same as 299013; [card has drawings of pattern.] Loop edge, applied."