From card: "Carved."Columbia River/Wasco/Wishram style horn bowl.

From Card: "395,521. Flat cylindrical baskets, two with partly plaited bases; the other plain—twined; walls of all in wrapped twining decorated with horizontal stripes of various colors worked into the pattern. Covers missing on two, and some rim damage."

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 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HARPOON-POLE. A HEAVY, UNWIELDY POLE MADE OF YEW (TAXUS BREVIFOLIA), SCARFED IN THREE PLACES, AND SERVED WITH STRIPS OF WILD-CHERRY BARK. ONE END TAPERS TO A POINT FOR THE RECEPTION OF HARPOON-SOCKET. USED BY NATIVES IN THRUSTING THE HARPOON INTO THE WHALE TO MAKE FAST THE SEAL-SKIN BUOYS. LENGTH, 15 FEET. MAKAH INDIANS, CAPE FLATTERY, 1883. 26825 JAMES G. SWAN. AN IMPLEMENT FOR WHICH THE MAKAH WHALER HAS A SPECIAL REGARD. IT IS SELDOM USED WITHOUT BEING BROKEN; IT IS THEN REPAIRED, AND ACQUIRES ADDITIONAL VALUE. I SAW ONE WITH SIX PLACES WHERE IT HAD BEEN REPAIRED, AND THE OWNER WOULD NOT PART WITH IT FOR ANY PRICE. IT WAS DIFFICULT TO GET THE ONE NOW SENT, ALTHOUGH THEY WERE PERFECTLY WILLING TO MAKE ME NEW ONES, BUT HAD NO YEW. SOME OF THESE HARPOON STAFFS WHICH HAVE BEEN IN THE SAME FAMILY FOR MANY GENERATIONS COULD NOT BE PURCHASED, FROM A SUPERSTITION [sic] THAT IT WOULD BE UNLUCKY."Described p. 102 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.. This description was added to the card (see text above.)

From card: "Coloring of splits done under Makah influence. Fancy basket, sides twined and inserted; design swimming birds."

A BLACK-BRIMMED HAT. TIGHTLY WOVEN, CONICAL RAINPROOF HAT WHICH IS SLIGHTLY CONCAVE AT THE TOP. A HEAD CAP IS WOVEN IN THE INTERIOR FOR A CLOSER FIT. THE EXTERIOR IS PAINTED WITH A BROAD BLACK RIM BAND WITH ABSTRACTED FORMLINE DESIGNS IN RED AND BLACK AT THE TOP. THIS PEALE NUMBER HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED TO THIS CATALOGUE NUMBER FOR PURPOSES OF IDENTIFICATION. Note re photos: Neg. # 88-15534 is shot of hat from side.