From card: "Dentalium shells red and blue beads and tips of red worsted suspended from a bar."

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".

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: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Coarse weave; whales and canoes on side."

Originally listed as 3 wedges, but only 1 remains in the collection. SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY [1?] SENT TO AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, 1885.Listed on page 49 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".See Cat. 115 p. 193 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. Entry is on one wedge, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.358, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E72679.

From card: "All imbrication, suggested through contact with Quinault (Salish). Twined; loop cord edge; [card has drawing of pattern.]"

From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Cedar bark alternate twine and inverted strip; loop edge."