Digging stick with a broad, slightly curved blade on one side. There is a raised section dividing the handle from the blade. The handle is wrapped with bark, and there is another raised protuberance at the end.

Bentwood box (part a) with red painted corners and lid (part b). The box is lashed and sewn together with root along the seam. There is a notch cutout of the centre of the front panel. The lid has a carved geometric design on the top painted with red details and red corners that line up with the red corners of the box. There is a small x-shaped cut centred along the edge on the underside. Price penciled on interior with small adhesive price label overtop.

Replica house front boards, painted in red and black; reconstruction of image from a Tsimshian house screen board in the MOA collection.

Replica house front boards, painted in red and black; reconstruction of images from a section of a Tsimshian house screen in the MOA collection. Image shows the pair of boards mounted together (DC5.1 and DC5.2).

Small ovular basket with imbricated designs across exterior, single-row foot, and cross-hatched rim. Walls of basket flare slightly outward from base, making opening larger than foot. Designs consist of inverted, concentric triangles, that extend from opening towards middle of basket. Done in black, red-brown, and light yellow-white; centres of triangles are light yellow-white. Two crosses extend from tips of each triangle; done in black with light yellow-white centres. Identical cross patterns in between triangles; done in red-brown with light yellow-white centres. Rim of opening, along exterior walls, decorated with naturally coloured cherry bark. Base and interior are undecorated.

Large lidded wooden chest. The exterior of the chest (part a) shows finely grooved texturing on surface. Each panel has borders at all four edges, with fine, vertical, parallel lines throughout the centre. Five parallel grooves run horizontally along the upper and lower edges of the chest, with diagonal grooves down each adjacent corner. The corners and base are secured with root-like(?) ties, wood pegs and nails. The exterior has a dark brown-black colour. The interior of the chest shows carving tool marks. There is a rectangular piece of wood along the interior, bottom edge of one side panel. The lid (part b) is flat on underside, with an upright ridge along the long front and back edges. The side edges are also carved with fine vertical parallel lines. The lid is composed of three pieces of wood pegged and nailed together. The underside surface of the lid is covered in carving tool marks.

Tamer's headdress. Cedar bark headdress in the form of a rounded beak: two semi-circular flaps at front representing a beak with two long oval shapes that sit on top of beak, a hooked nose that projects out over the beak. Bunched cedar strips are attached at the top of the headdress frame with thick white string, and white string is wrapped around the base of the frame at the back. (Photos show mask without the nose piece; nose repaired in 2021.)

Woven cedar bark screen with painted design in a horizontal orientation. Image is of two identical thunderbirds, bodies facing front and heads facing each other. Thunderbirds are outlined in black with formline designs throughout interior. Designs done in black with green and red-orange highlights. Each thunderbird has a curved horn on the back of their head and semi-circular shaped protrusion on top of their head. Thunderbirds have downward pointing wings and legs widely spread outward. Wings and tails have three feathers each and they are filled with dots. Wings have blue-grey dots, tail feathers have green. Main bodies are filled with red-orange dots, surrounding central designs, and head filled with blue-grey dots. Borders around all edges of screen are made of dyed(?) dark green-black strips of bark. The screen is edged with wide strips of bark.

Basketry covered bottle (part a) with faded design of a whale and whalers in a boat around middle. Above and below the whaling scene is a single red line with half circles repeating through it. There are bands of faded black with repeating red dashes through the centre. On the shoulder of the bottle is an extremely faded black design. The base has various sizes of plant fibres used, and an oval design in bright yellow, outlined in black. Removable basketry lid (part b) has two red dotted lines around the side and a red circle on the top with a faded black spiral design within.

Wooden halibut hook (part a) with wooden B-shaped float and detached metal barb (part b). Float attached to hook by thick cord wrapped in cedar root. A section of twisted cord extends beyond the float in a loop. The barb has lashings around its base.