FROM CARD: "20896-7. NAME: *WHALING HARPOON. LOCALITY: **SITKA. REMARKS: * #20897 SAME COMPONENTS, BUT NO SHEATH. 12/13/66 GP. ** COMPARE TO #74208-9 (MAKAH-NEAH BAY) GP."Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists locality for this object as Sitka (perhaps purchased there?) and lists culture as Makah. E20896 and 7 appear to be the two objects listed in the accession file as "2 Makah whaling harpoons."

From card: "Used only by successful whalers. Feathered on handle section lashed with braided cord. Sinew sewn flap edges. Used in songs after whale is speared." Card includes small drawing showing rattle construction.

Goes with model boat, catalog number E72936.

FROM CARD: "MADE BY MAKAH INDIANS."

FROM CARD: "OLD CATALOG CALLS THIS ONE OF SEVERAL "FISHING ARROWS," BUT THE TAG ATTACHED SAYS IT IS A "NET STRETCHER". A SMOOTH STICK, WRAPPED IN THREE PLACES WITH CEDAR (?) BARK. ILLUS., IN SMITHSONIAN REPORT FOR 1893, PL. 50, FIG. 1-2, P. 679." The card seems to refer only to the one stick that is (apparently) a net stretcher, not an arrow, but there are also 9 arrows with this number.Records in the SI Archives of the Office of Distribution say that an unspecified number of fish arrows with this number were sent to the Trocadero in Paris in 1885.See Cat. 31 p. 170 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. This entry is on Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.432, an arrow, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E650.For more information, see pdf of additional documentation on the Gibbs collections provided by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa which is filed with the Emu accession/transaction record.

FROM CARD: "FOR SPLITTING WOOD."