Chief's headdress with frontlet carved with a bear and frog and a train with ermine skins. [CAK 10/02/2010]

Chief's headdress with carved frontlet depicting a beaver with bird down and a train of ermine skins. [CAK 11/02/2010]

Gill net hoop weight with an alder(?) wood hoop, maple bark wrapped fastenings, and a maple bark wrapped stone at center. Also, organic (apocnym?) string remains attached to base. J. Futch, A. Maasen, October 29, 2004.

Using a spindle fitted with a large, hardwood whorl, Salish women spun the wool of the mountain goat, as well as that of the dogs bred especially for their wolly undercoat. The whorl is a flat wooden disk, which acts as a flywheel to provide the rotational momentum to the rod or spindle necessary to twist the wool fibers into yarn. Here, two human figures crouch with their feet encompassing the spindle hole. They are depicted in considerable detail, with fingers and toes defined by incised lines. The figures themselves are not outlined, their limits merely suggested by the fins of the surrounding fish-like carvings. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

The paint is red.