Clear glass container covered with basketry. The bottle is tall and thin, bulging slightly at its base, shoulder and rim, and indented at the neck. The fine weaving covers the exact shape of the bottle including the base. Only the top of the rim and interior are uncovered. There is some very faded decoration in the weaving on the body, however, a bright red ring is still clearly visible on the base.

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY 1 OBJECT WITH THIS NUMBER SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885. Ledger indicates 1 object with this number sent to T.F. Spangler 2-1886.According to the accession record, Swan acquired 2 crabapple wood bows, with arrows, and 2 mountain yew wood bows, with arrows, from the maker, Tahahowtl or Byron, a Makah Indian of Neah Bay, Washington. These objects were catalogued as numbers E76294 - E76297.See Cat. 122 p. 195 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is one arrow, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.433, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E76296.

LEDGER SAYS SENT TO SAPPORO MUSEUM, JAPAN. 1895; TO REV. J.C.C. NEWTON. 1895. LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO STEVENSON, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1897.