INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983. "LPX ORDER 670 $91.33"From card: "Brown basket conical hat w/ red and black design."Pamela Brown (Heiltsuk) and Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. This hat labeled as Bella Bella was most likely given as a gift, acquired through marriage, or stolen. Heiltsuk hats are never shaped in this way. It has very Makah and West coast design choices.

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED."

From card: "Worn as a hat; painted with totemic designs and carved to represent an animal. Some appendages missing. Apparently recently made."

FROM CARD: "IN SHAMAN'S BOX [# E68018]."

May be Sitka Tlingit?: it is identified as collected in Sitka; and also see accession history re the basket part of this accession being from the "Sitka-Kwahn."

TIGHTLY WOVEN, SINGLE-PAIR WRAPPED TWINE CONICAL HAT, PROBABLY MADE OF SPRUCE ROOT. THE LOWER HALF OF THE HAT HAS A WOVEN DESIGN BY WEFT ON ONE AND TWO WARPS. THERE ARE PAINTED DECORATIONS IN GEOMETRIC AND ABSTRACT DESIGNS IN BLACK AND RED. THERE IS A CAP WOVEN ON THE INTERIOR OF THE HAT FOR A CLOSER FIT. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.FROM CARD: "PER PEALE CATALOG: 2721 = ORIG. 342 = WATER-TIGHT BASKET, OREGON COAST."For small illustration see Hat 111, p. 221 in Glinsmann, Dawn. 2006. Northern Northwest Coast spruce root hats. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. Glinsmann identifies as of Haida manufacture. Hat is also illustrated Fig. 166, p. 149 and described p. 149-150 in Glinsmann: "... it has upward jogs, 3-strand Z-twining on the top and crown, and a mamatsiki brim pattern separated from the crown by 4-string S-twine on the brim turn. The ending is a stitched chevron, the most ubiquitous on the coast by the end of the nineteenth century. This, however, is that technique's debut, for until 1841 it was only seen either incorporating warps ... or running in a right-to-left direction. This technique - without using the warps and in a left-to-right direction - becomes the "classic" Haida ending. The formline painting has fully developed primary and tertiary lines that bespeak mid-nineteenth century Haida design. Also significant is the distribution of the design, which is not limited to the crown, but extends over the brim as well."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.

SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.Listed on page 43 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".Hat has a wooden tag inside marked "OCF".

INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983. "LPX ORDER 670 $91.33"From card: "Basket hat. Completely painted with faded red background. Black and white design." "Makah" is written inside hat, near catalogue number.Pamela Brown (Heiltsuk) and Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. This hat labeled as Bella Bella was most likely given as a gift, acquired through marriage, or stolen. Heiltsuk hats are never shaped in this way. It is very Makah and West coast design choices.