FROM CARD: "FOR MAKING MATS."

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BASKET STRAP.---A BAND MADE OF YARN OF VARIOUS COLORS WOVEN IN ZIG-ZAG DESIGNS, WITH A PLAITED ROPE ATTACHED TO ONE END. USED TO FACILITATE THE CARRYING OF HEAVILY LADEN BASKETS. THE ROPES ARE FASTENED TO THE BASKET, WHICH IS HELD ON THE BACK BY THE WOVEN STRAP PLACED OVER THE FOREHEAD OF THE CARRIER. WIDTH, 2 3/4 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS (SALISHAN STOCK), WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 23,471. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.

FROM CARD: "23508-10. #23509 - ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT 1884, PL. XV, P. 306." FROM CARD: "BASKET.--MADE OF TWILLED WHITE BIRCH SPLINTS. A SERIES OF CONNECTED LOOPS CAUGHT UNDER THE RIM AND EXTENDING AROUND THE TOP. LENGTH, 14 1/2 INCHES; WIDTH, 9 INCHES; DEPTH, 12 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS (SALISHAN STOCK), WASHINGTON. 23,509. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "23479-80. #23480 - ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT 1884, P1. XIII, P. 306."

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.