[E2123-0 and E2123-1] TWO NARROW WOVEN BELTS WHICH ARE SEWN AT EITHER END. BOTH WOVEN IN A ZIGZAG PATTERN OF BLUE, RED, YELLOW, LIGHT BLUE-GREEN AND NATURAL COLORS. PUBLICATION: S.I. ANNUAL REPORT, 1928, PL. 13, P. 641. ONE BELT [E2123-1] WAS FORMERLY ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE NORTH AMERICAN HALL (Hall 9), NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1989. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.FROM CARD: "SMALL & NARROW. WOVEN OF VARIOUS COLORED WOOLS IN ZIGZAG PATTERN."

From card: "Made by a woman who had been blind for 20 years. Cylindrical basket sloping slightly in at rim for 1" deep cover. Wrapped coiled weaving decorated with a band of standing human figures in brown against yellow ground."

From card: "One of the corner posts of last Tlokwali house. Carving (man and whale) represents guardian spirit of owner and builder of house. Newer carving. Carved from a log. Figure carved in relief on slab. No legs. Clasps whale in front of his body. Headdress of feathers set in wood. Painted black and white on face."Per Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 2011, house post Cat. # E299078-0 is similar in form to one illustrated second from left in drawing by Ollie Obi in the National Anthropological Archives - NAA INV08655600, Manuscript 1802, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Caption for drawing: "Totem Poles in the Potlatch Hall at La Push, Quileute Reservation, Wash. drawn in the colors as the[y] appear in that hall."

From card: "Bent spruce; iron wire barb."

SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO READING MUSEUM, PA, 1915.