FROM CARD: "56461-2. 50 CTS. EACH." FROM SWAN'S HANDWRITTEN LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD: "KUYOKUAT INDIANS WEST COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND B.C." - F. PICKERING 6-25-1999

From card: "Made of cedar bark and nettle fibre." From old 19th or early 20th century exhibit label in card file: "Blanket - Made of cedar bark and nettle fiber, closely woven, and ornamented with a border of soft otter fur. Worn about the shoulders as a cloak. Kyoquaht Indians (Wakashan stock), 1888. Collected by Jas. G. Swan." Formerly on exhibit in NHB exhibit Hall 9, case 29, where exhibit label described it as: "cold weather cloak of twined cedar bark and nettle fiber."Twined cedar bark and nettle fiber (according to exhibit label). Wool twisted with cedar woven into all borders. Arc-shape to neck area, and bottom rounded. Very soft otter fur tied to neck area.Listed on page 33 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Western Eskimo".

FROM CARD: "$5.00." FROM SWAN'S HANDWRITTEN LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD: "1 BARK BLANKET MADE FROM THE INNER BARK OF THE WHITE CYPRESS -CUPRESSUS NUTTIATENSIS- BY THE KUYOKUAT INDIANS, A TRIBE RESIDING ON THE WEST COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND NORTH OF NOOTKA. ..." - F. PICKERING 6-25-1999

From card: "Made similarly to bark cloaks."

In Swan's invoice of June 30, 1888 in the accession file he notes this mat as "... used as a wrapper to the parcel."

FROM CARD: "56461-2. 50 CTS. EACH." FROM SWAN'S HANDWRITTEN LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD: "KUYOKUAT INDIANS WEST COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND B.C." - F. PICKERING 6-15-1999