Small bowl carved from black argillite in the form of a frog. Has original Peale # label. Front left foot broken/part missing.Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition. This object has been attributed as possibly Haida, based on its being made of argillite.Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7186, United States Exploring Expedition Collection, Box 2, Folder 6, has a shipping list/received list via the USS Oregon in October 1842: "Ex Ex Box No. 18 R. R. Waldron [Richard Russell Waldron]. Box No. 18 From the Oregon Territory containing ... 1 Dish in shape of a Bull frogg. Black Stone ... ".Listed on page 45 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: "8/17/66: INVENTORIED, BOW ON DISPLAY."These objects are Peale # 133. Peale numbers 132 - 134 are described as "Bows and arrows used by the natives of the northwest coast of America, near Fort Simpson, presented by the officers of the Hon. Hudson Bay Comp [Hudson's Bay Company]."Bow and 8 arrows.

WILKES?; SMALL TUBULAR BASKET, DECORATED RIM HAS A BAND OF BROWN TRIANGLES WITH DESCENDING BANDS OF PARALLEL ZIGZAGS. POSSIBLY WILKES/U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION COLLECTION? FORMERLY NUMBERED E2708 BUT GIVEN T NUMBER AS 2708 APPARENTLY INCORRECT, PER JANE WALSH. SPECULATIVELY, THIS MAY STILL BE PART OF THE U.S. EXPORING EXPEDITION/WILKES COLLECTION, EVEN IF THE CATALOGUE NUMBER IS WRONG?

[E2123-0 and E2123-1] TWO NARROW WOVEN BELTS WHICH ARE SEWN AT EITHER END. BOTH WOVEN IN A ZIGZAG PATTERN OF BLUE, RED, YELLOW, LIGHT BLUE-GREEN AND NATURAL COLORS. PUBLICATION: S.I. ANNUAL REPORT, 1928, PL. 13, P. 641. ONE BELT [E2123-1] WAS FORMERLY ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE NORTH AMERICAN HALL (Hall 9), NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1989. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.FROM CARD: "SMALL & NARROW. WOVEN OF VARIOUS COLORED WOOLS IN ZIGZAG PATTERN."

Illus. Pl. 33, p. 58 and described p. 82 of Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1953. Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings. [Ottawa]: Dept. of Resources and Development, National Parks Branch, National Museum of Canada. Motifs identified there as "... Frog at the left, issuing from the mouth of the Bear .... The other stylized figures here are (from left to right) the Raven touching tongues with the Bear, the Whale with a man partly in its mouth, and the Thunderbird with its curved beak..."Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition. This object has been attributed as possibly Haida, based on its being made of argillite.

A wooden panel pipe or ship pipe. Has original Peale # label. Written on this pipe in old handwriting: "N. W. Coast - by R. R. Waldron Ex. Ex. b.17." This may mean that Richard Russell Waldron, purser, USS Vincennes, was the collector of this pipe.Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition.FROM CARD: "WOOD INLAID WITH IVORY."

FROM CARD: "8/17/66: INVENTORIED."Bow and 6 arrows.

TIGHTLY WOVEN, SINGLE-PAIR WRAPPED TWINE HAT WITH A WIDE BRIM AND A HIGH CYLINDRICAL TOP, PROBABLY MADE OF SPRUCE ROOT. THE HAT IS MADE IN THE FORM OF A EUROPEAN WOMAN'S STRAW POKE BONNET OF THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, WRITTEN ON HAT, "WILKES 343 OREGON". PUBLICATION: ILLUS. IN THE "NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION," CHARLES WILKES, 1845, VOL. V, P. 158. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition.Identified as of probable Haida manufacture, based on the start, by Haida artists (basketmaker and textile weaver) Delores Churchill and Evelyn Vanderhoop, 2015.