From card: "Sent to the National Museum by Mr. J.B. Field for Lieut. G. T. Emmons U.T.N.M. to be exchanged for a jade labret. [Catalogued as Quileute, Cape Flattery, Wash.] But see Cat. #219568 which identifies this as from "South Coast Alaska".

From card: "The Quileute Indians learned the make of these baskets some 40 years ago [i.e. about 40 years prior to 1917]. Loop edge; strongly made; pattern in red." [card has drawing of pattern.]

BAE 1960; UNCATALOGUED BOTANICAL SPECIMENS FROM QUILEUTE INDIANS. Tags/labels with these various botanical specimens identify some as different types of grasses used as basketry materials. In addition, some plants are identified as medicinal, and some as edible. Native names are included for many of the plants.

From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Aniline and natural colors; design [card has a zigzag drawing here] on side."

From card: "One of the corner posts of last Tlokwali house. Carving (man and whale) represents guardian spirit of owner and builder of house. Newer carving. Carved from a log. Figure carved in relief on slab. No legs. Clasps whale in front of his body. Headdress of feathers set in wood. Painted black and white on face."Per Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 2011, house post Cat. # E299078-0 is similar in form to one illustrated second from left in drawing by Ollie Obi in the National Anthropological Archives - NAA INV08655600, Manuscript 1802, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Caption for drawing: "Totem Poles in the Potlatch Hall at La Push, Quileute Reservation, Wash. drawn in the colors as the[y] appear in that hall."

From card: "Bent spruce; iron wire barb."

The raffia is natural. The black is red.

The raffia is natural. The raffia is dye, green, pink, and red.

The bear grass is natural, purple, red, and maroon. The raffia is dye, purple, and dark green.

The raffia is dye and red. The bear grass is natural. The ribbon is purple.