From card: "10/24/61 Technical description by Miss Grace Rogers, Curator, Div. of Textiles: Construction: gauze or twined weave. Warps were held to top cross bar of loom by a 2 ply, 6 strands to each ply, all cotton yarn. Warps themselves of 2-ply yarn made up of 6 strands of cotton yarn in one ply and 2 strands of animal hair in the second ply (possibly goat). Approximately one warp per inch but closer at the selvages. Weft: narrow twisted strips of bird skins (possibly duck) with down filling the intervening spaces. Approximately 7 strips to 2" at the wide end, and 9 strips to 2" at the narrow end. Basic color is an irregular light tan, with spots of darker, and one long border is white and there is another white stripe near the other border. Lent to the Burke Museum 2/23/89. Loan returned Oct 10, 1989." Illus. (in color, as #1296A) Pl. 4, p. 47 in "A Time of Gathering: native heritage in Washington State", ed. Robin K. Wright, University of Washington Press, 1991.

From card: "Introduced into Quileute territory very recently. [this note written circa 1917]. Outside vertical strips, inside horizontal sewing of cross twine. Loop edge."

From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Brilliant colors; design birds and canoe on side; whorl design on lid."

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)".

From card: "8 feet high. One of the corner posts of Tlokwali house situated at Beaver Prairie, Clallam Co., Washington. Carving represents guardian spirit of builder and owner of the house. Anthropomorphic figure cut from log painted red yellow and black. Nose set on."Per Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 2011, house post Cat. # E298996-0 is similar in form to one illustrated on far left in drawing by Ollie Obi in the National Anthropological Archives - NAA INV08655600, Manuscript 1802, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Caption for drawing: "Totem Poles in the Potlatch Hall at La Push, Quileute Reservation, Wash. drawn in the colors as the[y] appear in that hall."

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: "Introduced recently [basket was catalogued in 1917] (through Makah) among Quileute Indians. All made by Quileute women. Quileutes call these the "standing up" baskets. Double wall inner of rush and outer of flattened grass stem; gaudily dyed. Four loop handles."