FROM CARD: "MADE BY MAKAH INDIANS."

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED WITH SMITHSONIAN INST." Note: Neg. #s 2002-12257 and 2002-12296 are photos of three of these paddle models with canoe model Catalogue # E2583.For more information, see pdf of additional documentation on the Gibbs collections provided by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa which is filed with the Emu accession/transaction record.

FROM CARD: "OLD CATALOG CALLS THIS ONE OF SEVERAL "FISHING ARROWS," BUT THE TAG ATTACHED SAYS IT IS A "NET STRETCHER". A SMOOTH STICK, WRAPPED IN THREE PLACES WITH CEDAR (?) BARK. ILLUS., IN SMITHSONIAN REPORT FOR 1893, PL. 50, FIG. 1-2, P. 679." The card seems to refer only to the one stick that is (apparently) a net stretcher, not an arrow, but there are also 9 arrows with this number.Records in the SI Archives of the Office of Distribution say that an unspecified number of fish arrows with this number were sent to the Trocadero in Paris in 1885.See Cat. 31 p. 170 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. This entry is on Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.432, an arrow, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E650.For more information, see pdf of additional documentation on the Gibbs collections provided by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa which is filed with the Emu accession/transaction record.

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED."

From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Grass imbrication, yellow black and red dye; design canoes in black."

FROM CARD: "FOR SPLITTING WOOD."