FROM CARD: "SIXTEEN LARGE PECTEN SHELLS ARE PERFORATED NEAR THE HINGE AND STRUNG ON A HOOP OF SPRUCE ROOT; AT THE HANDLE IS A BUNDLE OF FEATHERS LIKE THOSE FROM A TURKEY, AND STRIPS OF RED AND BLUE FLANNEL WOUND WITH THREE BANDS OF RED. ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60, ART. 9; PL. 38, NO. 7; P. 48. LOANED TO RENWICK 9/3/81. RETURNED 1983. ILLUS.: P. 80, PL. 64, CELEBRATIONS CATALOGUE, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1982. SHELL RATTLE, CA. 1850-73. CLALLAM COAST SALISH INDIANS; PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON. SPRUCE-ROOT HOOP, RED AND BLUE FLANNEL, STRING,FEATHERS, SCALLOP SHELLS. SCALLOP-SHELL RATTLES LIKE THIS ONE WERE PART OF THE CEREMONIAL REGALIA OF THE SAIHWE DANCERS, A RELIGIOUS SOCIETY AMONG SOME OF THE COAST SALISH PEOPLES OF THE SOUTHERN COAST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. THE SAIHWE PERFORMED DURING CEREMONIAL RITES OF PASSAGE AND WHENEVER AN INDIVIDUAL ASSUMED A NEW STATUS AND GUESTS RECEIVED GIFTS. SAIHWE DANCERS WERE FOUR IN NUMBER, EACH WEARING A BIRDLIKE MASK, A NECK SHIELD, ROWS OF SWAN FEATHERS, LEGGINGS OF SWANSDOWN SKIN, AND DEER-HOOF ANKLETS. A DANCER CARRIED A CEDAR BRANCH IN HIS LEFT HAND TO BALANCE THE SCALLOP-SHELL RATTLE HELD IN HIS RIGHT HAND. ILLUS. HANDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 11 BOTTOM RIGHT, PG. 468."

FROM CARD: "SIMILAR TO 4,120, EXCEPT THAT THE COVER HAS A WEASEL CARVED ON IT. THE BODY IS PLAIN AND SOMEWHAT OF AN ENLOGATED EGG-SHAPE."

FROM CARD: "SEE U.S.N.M. DIST. 5-26-77 EX. PEABODY MUSEUM." Anthropology catalogue ledger book indicates part of this exchanged with Trocadero Museum, France, July 1885.See Cat. 126 p. 197 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 Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.76, which their records incorrectly identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E25350. It is probably instead formerly E23350.

FROM CARD: "$4.00. ILLUS. IN BAE BULL. 144, PL. 5-B, P. 460. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 9A, PG. 403."

FROM CARD: "FOR PREPARING BARK FIBRE FOR WEAVING. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 1NN, PG. 3." Identified in Handbook caption as a bark processing tool.Bark beater.