FROM CARD: "STICK PREPARED FOR STEAMING & BENDING OUT A HALIBUT HOOK."

FROM CARD: "MADE OF THE STIPE OF AN ALGAE. CESAR FONSECA 7/1968 SAYS THIS IS THE WRONG NUMBER."Note that donor Lt. J. W. White's name is mistranscribed on catalog card and ledger book as "J. M. White".

Goes with model boat, catalog number E72936.

Artifact has 2 original tags attached to it: From first tag: "Smelt Net. J.G. Swan. Made from Nettle fibre. Neeah Bay, W.T. Made by Quillehute Indians." From second tag: "Miniature net. Used by the Indians at Quillehute west coast of Washington Territory to catch the surf smelt. The full size of net used is 5 ft. long 20 inches wide. The net is made of the fiber of the common stinging nettle. James G. Swan, Neah Bay, W. T. Sept. 1879". The back of second tag has a drawing of the net as set up.

From card: "Made in bird cage stitch. Original catalogue has no listing of 204224a; nor does the Houtz accession papers mention any Quinault baskets. This is probably not a Houtz collection specimen. See note on cat. card # 204224."As of 2009, there are 2 baskets bearing the number 204224: E204224 and E204224A, and the cultural identifications for each appear unclear. The original Anthropology catalogue ledger book entry lists only one object for this number: original # 8, identified as a Quinault wallet (i.e. bag). E204224 is a flat basketry bag. Catalogue card now identifies it as Wasco, not Quinault, though it does not seem typical Wasco style. An old tag on the object also identifies it as possibly Chehalis. It is listed in the database under all three cultural identifications of Wasco, Quinault and Chehalis pending further study. E204224A is a cylindrical basketry bag. Catalogue card identifies it as Quinault, though it is not typical Quinault style (and seems more Columbia River style, possibly Wasco?) It is currently listed in the database under both cultural identifications of Quinault and Wasco pending further study.

FROM CARD: "23327-8. 23327 SAPPORO MUS. 1/28/95 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".