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A carved wooden mask with a rounded and protruding forehead, chin, mouth and nose. The face is painted white with green around the eye, nose, and chin areas. There are three green semi-circles along the top of the forehead. The eyebrows are painted black, and the nostrils are painted red. Holes are along the sides of the ears, in the middle of the eyes, and there are two slits in the red mouth. The cedar bark 'hair' is attached loosely. There's a nail at the top of the forehead where the hair attaches.
The top part of the rattle (a) is a carved and painted raven rattle with a human and a frog on its back. The bottom part (part b) is an oval bowl-shaped with longer handle. The bowl area is carved and painted with a bird face with a beak carved in relief. Handles of both parts are made to fit together. The light yellow-brown wood of each part is painted black and red, dark blue and dark green. Inscribed on top "V. Schooner"; the bottom has "V.S."
Rectangular wooden chest front with black and red painted expansive design. Design is bilaterally symetrical and heavily stylized. Eight sets of holes along left side, with some remnants of rope fibre.
Scaled down model house front with painted designs. The panel is made of two rectangular pieces flanking a peaked centre piece. The centre piece has a large design in red and black on wooden ground. There is a rectangular section at the bottom, depressed to one side as to give the impression of a slightly ajar door. The two side pieces have smaller designs featuring a bird motif in red and black on wooden ground. There are red bands on the top peaked edge and the sides. All three design sections are signed and dated by the artist.
Scaled down model house front with painted designs within three roundels. The panel is made of two rectangular pieces flanking a peaked centre piece. The centre piece has a large roundel with designs in red and black on wooden ground. There is a rectangular section at the bottom painted black. The two side pieces have smaller roundels with designs in red and black on wooden ground. There are red bands on the top peaked edge and the sides. All three design sections are signed by the artist.
Carved mask of human face with thick black painted eyebrows. Eyes are round holes in recessed areas; nose is blunt; mouth is open. A small notch is in the in edge above the forehead.
A carved human face mask with protruding round cut out eyes, a hook nose and an open horizontal-slit mouth. Unpainted wood with dark stain in some areas.
A carved ovoid shaped rattle with handle. Rattle is made of two pieces joined by metal pins on sides and base of handle. Front is convex with carved, painted human face with black eyes. Red face with black marking and crosshatching on either side of the nose. Mouth is red. Back has Northwest Coast design with ovoids, beak-like design, and crosshatching. Stones and shells inside rattle. The brown wood is painted dark red, red, and black.
Q'umukwa (Chief of the Undersea World) mask. Deeply carved and painted mask with a large bulbous nose, sweeping brows, prominent cheeks, deeply layered planes, a receding forehead and jaw, and an open, projecting mouth with a fin-like fold on either side. Bear-like ears and small round cutout eyes. Black is overpainted on ultramarine blue with white, red and blue details. Nails on top with fibre remnants and cords attached to back.
Stone pestle with large cylindrical end, and a smaller head with protruding knob at the handle.