FROM CARD: "VERY FINE SPECIMEN IN YELLOW, BROWN AND NATURAL; DESIGNS IN FRONT ROWS OF DEER ON YELLOW BACKGROUND; REAR ZIGZAGS HORIZONTALLY ARRANGED ON YELLOW BANDS. TWINED WEAVING." OBJECT WAS ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS MAKAH, NEAH BAY, B.C., HOWEVER THE MAKAH OF NEAH BAY ARE IN WASHINGTON STATE.BASKET WAS ILLUS. FIG. 16, P. 51 AND DISCUSSED P. 50 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984. ID THERE AS LARGE FLAT WRAPPED TWINED BAG, MISTAKENLY CATALOGUED AS MAKAH, BUT ACTUALLY CLATSOP OR TILLAMOOK, WEAVE 14 WARPS AND 15 WEFTS PER INCH, 31.8 CM. H, 52.1 CM. DIA., 40 CM. W.. Illus. p. 252 and discussed p. 252 and p. 383 in Gilman, Carolyn. 2003. Lewis and Clark across the divide. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. Identified there as materials: sweet grass sedge (Scirpus americanus), bear grass, cedar bark, and sea grass. Design: on the rim is a common motif known as the hell-diver bird. The animals shown are probably elk. Illus. Fig. 9.11, p. 209 in Brotherton, Barbara. 2008. S'abadeb = The gifts : Pacific Coast Salish arts and artists. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press. Figure caption identifies design: "obverse side displays three bands of deer with one narrow band of birds near the rim; the reverse shows four horizontal bands of zigzags."

FOUND IN THE COLLECTIONS WITHOUT A MUSEUM CATALOGUE NUMBER. GIVEN # ET20352-0 FOR TRACKING PURPOSES. POSSIBLY WILKES/U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION COLLECTION? SEE SIMILAR BASKETS ET7616, ET20353 AND E2711.

WILKES?; SMALL TUBULAR BASKET; DECORATION: 3 HORIZONTAL BANDS OF DOUBLE ZIGZAGS BANDED BY THIN LINES, RECORDED AS NO. E2708 WHICH IS INCORRECT, PER JANE WALSH. OREGON. POSSIBLY WILKES/U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION COLLECTION? SEE SIMILAR BASKETS ET7616, ET20352 AND E2711. SPECULATIVELY, THIS MAY STILL BE PART OF THE U.S. EXPORING EXPEDITION/WILKES COLLECTION, EVEN IF THE CATALOGUE NUMBER IS WRONG?

2 TWINED BASKETS CLATSOP? CHEHALIS? BASKET IN BEST CONDITION WAS ILLUS. AS FIG. 11, P. 49 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984. IDENTIFIED THERE (ALONG WITH ITS "MATE") AS POSSIBLE WILKES/U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION COLLECTION. WRAPPED TWINE CYLINDER BASKET, CLATSOP OR TILLAMOOK, TEN WARPS AND SIXTEEN WEFTS PER INCH. HORIZONTAL BANDED DESIGNS IN MAIN FIELD. 15.2 CM. H.; 11.1 CM. W. AT RIM; 8.9 CM. W. AT BASE. SEE SIMILAR BASKETS T20352 & 3 AND 2711.

WILKES?; SMALL TUBULAR BASKET, DECORATED RIM HAS A BAND OF BROWN TRIANGLES WITH DESCENDING BANDS OF PARALLEL ZIGZAGS. POSSIBLY WILKES/U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION COLLECTION? FORMERLY NUMBERED E2708 BUT GIVEN T NUMBER AS 2708 APPARENTLY INCORRECT, PER JANE WALSH. SPECULATIVELY, THIS MAY STILL BE PART OF THE U.S. EXPORING EXPEDITION/WILKES COLLECTION, EVEN IF THE CATALOGUE NUMBER IS WRONG?