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LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO MUSEE GUIMET, FRANCE. 1887. HOWEVER, PER NOTE BY GP (GEORGE PHEBUS) ON CATALOGUE CARD, ITEM WITH THIS NUMBER WAS LOCATED IN COLLECTIONS 12/13/1966.
FROM CARD: "23365-8. 23368 TO ANNECY MUS." Note: as of 2009 there are two bags in the collections numbered 23368.A list in Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 186, Box 11, Distribution 5103, indicates one bag with this number was sent as part of an exchange to the Annecy Museum, Haute-Savoie, France, March 1887.
From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Well made of rush cedar bark and white and dark green seaweed; design flying birds."
From card: "Makah informant, Young Doctor, painted this design to illustrate a vision he had. While on a journey his canoe was surrounded by wolves. Figure in center represents the man, the two animals at the ends, in profile, are the wolves. Design in red, green, black, yellow, and blue. Figure is composite."