CEDAR BARK BLANKET WITH A SINGLE TWIST RAWHIDE FINISH ALONG TOP, AND TWO DOUBLE CORDS FOR TYING. THIS MAY HAVE ONCE HAVE BEEN AN OTTER FUR TRIM. SINGLE-PAIR (3 WARPS) EDGE, & SINGLE-PAIR TWINE WEFT. MARKS: HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, ANOTHER TAG READS, "U.S. EX EX COLLECTED BY R.P. ROBINSON".FROM CARD: "ILLUS. FIG. 20, P. 16 IN A GUIDE TO WEFT TWINING BY DAVID W. FRASER. PHILADELPHIA: UNIVERSITY OF PENN. PRESS, 1989."Catalogue card identifies this as Shasta, but Peale catalogue entry under # 315 lists 315-318 as "Dresses worn by the women of the Classet tribe of natives, Northwest Coast of America, they are made of bark."

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM WOOD. SURMOUNTED BY A MASK. 9 TEETH."Illus. p. 240, and described on p. 240 and p. 382 in Gilman, Carolyn. 2003. Lewis and Clark across the divide. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. It is noted there: "Combs like this one are sometimes identified as weaving combs, but the Chinook did little weaving and may have used them for grooming and decoration instead. ... Similar combs from farther north were collected on Captain James Cook's expedition in 1778."Peale # 252. Peale catalogue describes #s 251-253 as "Wooden combs made by the natives of Oregon."Carved from a single piece of wood. Rectangular in shape with long, slightly irregular carved teeth. On top of comb is a carved human head with beard and pronounced eyebrows. The face, except around the eyebrows, and top part of comb is colored with red. Eyebrows are colored black.Per Bill Holm - Columbia River up to mid Vancouver Island; more likely Juan de Fuca Strait.

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM WOOD; TEN TEETH 2 1/2 INCHES LONG; SURMOUNTED BY FIGURE OF A MAN." [back of card]: "LENT TO THE BURKE MUSEUM, 2/23/89. LOAN RETURNED OCT 10, 1989."*SEE* A TIME OF GATHERING BY ROBIN K. WRIGHT, 1991, P. 108, WHERE THIS OBJECT IS IDENTIFIED AS A COMB, COAST SALISH; CARVED END DEPICTS A HUMAN FIGURE WEARING A EURO-AMERICAN STYLE HAT.Has original Peale # label Peale # 253. Peale catalogue describes #s 251-253 as "Wooden combs made by the natives of Oregon."Comb carved from single piece of wood. Upper portion is a human figure wearing a hat. Head is somewhat naturally rendered, whereas body is simplified. ten teeth form lower portion of comb.