Raven transformation mask carved as a bird when closed and a human face surrounded by dogfish and crest designs when open. [CAK 08/04/2010]

Painted wooden mask representing frog or toad's head, with moveable lower jaw. [MJD 24/08/2009]

Shaman's dance apron made of wool textile and decorated with puffin beaks and quillwork and/or woven plant material. [CAK 06/04/2010]

Bentwood box [.1] painted with bird designs and lid [.2] inlaid with shell. [CAK 08/02/2010]

Beaded hide apron with straight top and five scalloped panels hanging along the bottom. A blackened flap of skin at the waist is folded over a stiffer tie (skin or fibre?), stitched and coiled with white beads, and edged with a band of white and blue beadwork that has a hanging chain of red blue, yellow and white beads at the centre. A blue bead trim runs around the edge of the thick horizontal and vertical bands of beads that form a white ground with green, pink, blue. black, orange and yellow house designs in the centre and on two of the panels.

Heavy square canvas apron with beadwork decoration on the front. Canvas is rolled and stitched at the top edge to create a waist band, across which are stitched four strings of large white beads and through which is knotted one skin tie. A thick blue bead trim runs around the edge of the horizontal bands of beads that form a white ground, with non-beaded negative spaces at the top and dark blue, green, purple and black house designs at the bottom.

Spirit of the Ancestors-Kaht Ku'uss means people. Since the first contact with Europeans in the late 18th century, this has been generally used to mean First Nations peoples.

Spirit of the Ancestors-Small round skin drums were used during the 19th century primarily on the southern coast by Coast Salish religious dancers. On the northern coast they were used primarily by shamans in their curing work. Perhaps through their use to accompany the singing at gambling games (lehal), the use of round skin drums has spread during the 20th century to become the most frequently used drum at potlatches and other social occasions.