LEDGER SAYS SENT TO SAPPORO MUSEUM, JAPAN. 1895; TO REV. J.C.C. NEWTON. 1895. LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO STEVENSON, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1897.

FROM CARD: "1 ACCOUNTED FOR WITH ATTACHED LANYARD, 12/13/66 GP. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 2B, PG. 424."

CIRCULAR LIDDED BASKET WITH STRAIGHT SIDES. PLAITED BASE OF CEDAR BARK AND GRASS. SIDES OF CLOSED WRAP TWINING WITH WARP OF CEDAR BARK AND AND WRAPPED WEFT OF BEAR GRASS. RIM OF 1 CM. WIDE STRIP OF CEDAR BARK. LID ORNAMENTED WITH SPIRAL DESIGN IN RED, BROWN, AND BLACK WRPA TWINING. SIDES ORNAMENTED WITH PARALLEL BANDS IN RED, BROWN, AND BLACK WRAP TWINING. CULTURAL IDENTIFICATION BY LINDA EISENHART, MUSEUM SPECIALIST, DEPT. OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 1986.

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: REPRESENTS BIRD HEAD; PAINTED IN RED, BLACK AND GREEN." ILLUS. IN BAE BULLETIN 124, PL. 13A, AFTER P. 24. SEE P. 25 IN THAT PUBLICATION WHERE OBJECT IS IDENTIFIED AS A DANCE HELMET REPRESENTING A RAVEN MADE BY JIM HUNTER, A CLAYOQUOT LIVING AT NEAH BAY. - F. PICKERING 7-7-2000