From card: "The Quileute Indians learned the make of these baskets some 40 years ago [i.e. about 40 years prior to 1917]. Same work as 299003; small square pattern inserted."

From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917]. Design 2 birds and 2 otter."Design on mat includes 2 birds. The catalogue card identifies the other two figures as otters, but these instead appear to be two canoes with two human figures in each.

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED WITH SMITHSONIAN INST."

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". An unknown person has written "Lummi" in pencil in the remarks section of the entry on this object in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book.

From card: "Used only by successful whalers. Feathered on handle section lashed with braided cord. Sinew sewn flap edges. Used in songs after whale is speared." Card includes small drawing showing rattle construction.

Goes with model boat, catalog number E72936.

FROM CARD: "MADE BY MAKAH INDIANS."