The rope is cedar root?. The paint is red and black.

The rope is sinew and cedar root?. The paint is red and black.

Wood, stomachs, bladders, and skins were used by Northwest Coast fishermen and sea hunters to make floats of many sizes. The largest and most impressive were whaling floats made of the skins or hair, of harbor seals. Painted designs on most whaling floats are similar to these. Concentric circles in various combinations of red and black, with simple geometric elaboration, make up the patterns. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

Plaited rope of seal hide.

Skin boots (also see inner boots c-d and e-f, and outer boots g-h) with dark brown soles, white uppers and grey and off-white seal fur legs with a geometric pattern. Legs have a vertical band at the front of each in dark grey-brown fur. Each boot also has a green, white and brown drawstring with a dark blue, green, off-white and brown tassel on each end.