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From card: "Weave - Bottom of basket checkerwork. The elements are then twined upwards to form sides, each one divided into three warp stems. Sides - simple twined weaving at intervals. Open work beading at top. Materials - Picea Sitchensis [Sitka spruce]."
From card: "Spruce and cedar. Tapering sides. Loops at corners to which are fastened the carrying rope with band."
FROM CARD: "WEAVE - CHECKER-WORK. MATERIALS - PICEA SITCHENSIS [SITKA SPRUCE]. A WHALING BAG, USED TO CARRY HARPOONS, ETC. THIS BAG WAS PURCHASED FROM A MAKAH WHALER AT NEAH BAY. THEY ARE VERY SCARCE AS THERE ARE FEW WHALERS AT THE PRESENT TIME AND THEY ARE LOATH TO SELL THEIR BAGS AS NONE ARE BEING MADE." [Back of card has photo of basket glued on.]
FROM CARD: "23312-8. 23313 CAMBRIDGE 5-07 ONE; 23313 CAMBRIDGE 5-88 ONE."
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".