Provenience note: many objects in the Chirouse collection were catalogued as Duwamish, however that really only seems to definitively apply to Catalogue No. 130965. Accession record indicates that the collection is the "handiwork of the Snohomish, Swinomish, Lummi, Muckleshoot and Etakmur Indians on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington Territory".

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.

FROM CARD: "CARVED STANDING WOODEN FIGURE; HANDS RAISED IN FRONT OF CHEST; UNPAINTED. REMAINS OF HAIR ON TOP OF HEAD. WEARING SKIN KILT WITH TINKLERS AND TWO CLOAKS PAINTED IN RED & BLACK TOTEMIC DESIGNS. NECKLACE OF CARVED BONE AND TEETH. WOODEN "POT-LATCH HAT" PAINTED IN RED AND BLACK ON HEAD."

Small bowl carved from black argillite in the form of a frog. Has original Peale # label. Front left foot broken/part missing.Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition. This object has been attributed as possibly Haida, based on its being made of argillite.Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7186, United States Exploring Expedition Collection, Box 2, Folder 6, has a shipping list/received list via the USS Oregon in October 1842: "Ex Ex Box No. 18 R. R. Waldron [Richard Russell Waldron]. Box No. 18 From the Oregon Territory containing ... 1 Dish in shape of a Bull frogg. Black Stone ... ".Listed on page 45 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".

FROM CARD: "... NO. 23439 - NOOTKA MASK - ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 198; P. 635. NEG. NO. ... 86-11790." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEADDRESS.---BOX-SHAPED; MADE OF LIGHT WOOD, THE SIDES BEING CARVED AND PAINTED TO REPRESENT PROFILE OF HORSE'S HEAD JOINED AT NOSE AND WIDELY SEPARATED BEHIND. THE HOLE FOR TOP OF HEAD IS WELL BACK AND UNDERNEATH. WORN BY MAKAH INDIANS OF NEAH BAY IN THEIR DANCES. LENGTH, 22 INS. WIDTH, 11 INS. WASHINGTON TERRITORY, 1876. 23,439. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."