CEDAR BARK BLANKET WITH A SINGLE TWIST RAWHIDE FINISH ALONG TOP, AND TWO DOUBLE CORDS FOR TYING. THIS MAY HAVE ONCE HAVE BEEN AN OTTER FUR TRIM. SINGLE-PAIR (3 WARPS) EDGE, & SINGLE-PAIR TWINE WEFT. MARKS: HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, ANOTHER TAG READS, "U.S. EX EX COLLECTED BY R.P. ROBINSON".FROM CARD: "ILLUS. FIG. 20, P. 16 IN A GUIDE TO WEFT TWINING BY DAVID W. FRASER. PHILADELPHIA: UNIVERSITY OF PENN. PRESS, 1989."Catalogue card identifies this as Shasta, but Peale catalogue entry under # 315 lists 315-318 as "Dresses worn by the women of the Classet tribe of natives, Northwest Coast of America, they are made of bark."

HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG GLUED ON, NO. 395. WRITTEN ON ONE DENTALIUM SHELL: "CLASSET MR. CALE [HALE?] EX EX".From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label stored with card: "Head-dress - Thirteen strings of shells, Dentalium indianorum, rove through strips of leather 2 ins. long, to preserve band shape. At opposite sides are fastened the ends of a pendant chin-strap made of strings of same shell. Length, 18 ins. Width, 2 ins. N.W. Coast of N. America, 1841, U.S. Explor. Expedition, Capt. Chas. Wilkes, U.S.N."

CEDAR BARK BLANKET WITH SEA OTTER FUR TRIM ON UPPER BORDER. THE WEFT IS DOUBLE, 2 SINGLE-PLAIN TWINE. THE WEFT IS A WHITE CORD, THE SINGLE-PAIR WRAPPED TWINE FORMS A 3 CM. BAND. THIS MAY HAVE BEEN RECATALOGUED CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT IT IS WITHIN A 14,000 SERIES. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTROY, 1985-86. PEALE # 316. MAY FORMERLY HAVE BEEN CATALOGUE NO. 2556.Peale catalogue entry under # 316 lists 315-318 as "Dresses worn by the women of the Classet tribe of natives, Northwest Coast of America, they are made of bark."

FOUND IN THE COLLECTIONS WITHOUT A MUSEUM CATALOGUE NUMBER. GIVEN # ET666-0 FOR TRACKING PURPOSES. JANE WALSH FEELS THAT THIS OBJECT MAY WELL BE CATALOGUE # E2555 (PEALE # 318), WHICH WOULD MAKE IT A WILKES/U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION PIECE. JANE NOTES THAT IT IS VERY SIMILAR TO OTHER NORTHWEST COAST CEDAR BARK BLANKETS OR CAPES WHICH STILL HAVE WILKES CATALOGUE NUMBERS. PEALE # 315 - 318 ARE IDENTIFIED IN THE PEALE CATALOGUE AS "DRESSES WORN BY THE WOMEN OF THE CLASSET [MAKAH] TRIBE OF NATIVES, NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA, THEY ARE MADE OF BARK."From T number card: "Nootkan?, Br. Col. - Wash. Terr.. Duck down trim."