FROM CARD: "SAPPORO MUS. 1/26/95."Note, object was catalogued as Port Townsend, Washington, which is where collector Swan was based at that time. The accession record lists "Specimens of table mats from Sitka." as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces, and thus possibly Tlingit?A list in Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 186, Box 11, Distribution 5103, indicates a mat and three baskets catalogue number 13111 were sent as part of an exchange to the Annecy Museum, Haute-Savoie, France, March 1887.

This one (the larger of the two hats) was formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, case 29. Exhibit label identified it as: "Rain hat of woven spruce roots."

FROM CARD: "23470-76. #23472 - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; FIG. 142; P.453. #23472: ILLUS. FIG. 99, P. 72 IN A GUIDE TO WEFT TWINING BY DAVID W. FRASER. PHILADELPHIA: UNIVERSITY OF PENN. PRESS, 1989." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BASKET STRAP.--A WOVEN BAND OF RED, WHITE, AND BLACK YARN WITH A PLAITED ROPE ATTACHED TO EACH END. USED TO FACILITATE THE CARRYING OF HEAVILY LADEN BASKETS. THE ROPES ARE FASTENED TO THE BASKET, WHICH IS HELD UPON THE BACK BY THE WOVEN BAND, WHICH EXTENDS OVER THE FOREHEAD OF THE CARRIER. WIDTH, 2 1/4 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS (SALISHAN STOCK), WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 23,472. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."E23472, ET14189, and E23470 are visible in a display case at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, as part of the Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum exhibits in the United States Government Building, featuring "American Aboriginal Handicraft Types of Weaving" presented by Department of Anthropology. USNM Neg. No. 13764. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62A, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62A_F12_003. https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_401053 .

FROM CARD [for 1155 through 1159]: "WITH TWO MINIATURE BOTTLES..."

From card for 299081-2: "Used during the (Tsokwali) war ceremonial. Like 299079. (Broken.)"