FROM CARD: "12/30/66: FOUR LISTED IN OLD CATALOG, THREE ACCOUNTED FOR AND DESIGNATED 23362-A,B, AND C. GP. 12/28/1978: FOUR FOUND IN COLLECTIONS LLE."

FROM CARD: "SEE ALSO CATALOGUE CARD FOR 13145. INVENTORIED 1980." Old labels glued onto back of totem pole model identify some of motifs as (from top) bear, wolf, and sea lion.The accession record lists "3 pieces stone carving by Haida Indians of Queen Charlotte Island B.C." as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces.

From old exhibit label filed with catalogue card: "Woman's skirt. - Of long strands of shredded cedar bark, doubled and strung on a cord, held in place by a row of twined weaving. Length 17 inches. Quinaielt Indians (Salishan stock), Quinaielt Agency, Washington Ter., 1887. Collected by Charles Willoughby."

FROM CARD: "BOTTLE.--COVERED WITH BASKET WORK. COILED WEAVING OF WHITE, BLACK, YELLOW, AND BROWN SPRUCE ROOT, BLENDED SO AS TO FORM A PLEASING SYSTEM OF CIRCLES. HEIGHT, 11 INCHES; DIAMETER, 3 1/8 INCHES. MAKAH INDIANS (WAKASHAN STOCK), NEAH BAY, WASHINGTON, 1876. 23,309. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."Records in SI Archives of the Office of Distribution say this was sent to E Lovett in GB (Great Britain?) in April 1889. Either this is incorrect (it is still here!) or it was later returned to the museum.

From card: "Wallet like. Made by Makah, sold to Tsihilis (Chehalis) & Chinuks (Chinooks)."Card records locality as Bruseport, Wash. but notes that Bruseport is unknown and that this may possibly be Boistfort. Another more likely possibililty is that this is Bruceport.

PROBABLY MADE OF FINELY TWISTED TWO-PLY CATTAIL (TYPHA LATIFOLIA) LEAF CORD - *SEE* A TIME OF GATHERING BY ROBIN K. WRIGHT, 1991, P. 34, 40, 48. Illus. p. 247 and described p. 247 and p. 382 in Gilman, Carolyn. 2003. Lewis and Clark across the divide. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. Identified there as Chinook.A similar Chinook skirt, from Lewis and Clark, is in collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, # PM 99-12-10/52990. The Peabody Museum website notes that Lewis and Clark "... described at length the unique twined cordage skirts that women in the lower Columbia River area made from cedar bark or cattail leaves, which were valuable commodities in local trade networks." Peabody Museum curator Castle McLaughlin has noted that the Catlin cordage skirts E73291, E73306 and E386547 have red paint applied to them, but this is not typical for these types of skirts. The red paint may have been applied by George Catlin?During the cataloguing of quillwork E386582B in 1948, a tag was found with it that stated "From a Lewis and Clark Chinook Skirt in Catlin Coll". Curator John C. Ewers determined that the tag did not actually belong with E386582B. It is possible that the tag might instead have been associated with Chinook skirts E73291, E73306 or E386547. This tag has not currently been located. Nor can the source of the possible ID of a Chinook skirt in the Catlin collection to Lewis and Clark be determined.

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.

PROVENIENCE NOTE: THE CARD CATALOG SHOWS THE LOCALITY AS "WASHINGTON-FRASER." THIS PRESUMABLY MEANS THE FRASER RIVER OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, WHICH FLOWS NEAR THE BORDER OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON.

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED."THOUGH ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS WOODEN, OBJECT APPEARS TO BE HORN.Columbia River/Wasco/Wishram style horn spoon.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.