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Antelope headdress. Wooden carving depicting an antelope-like animal with a large head, neck, horns, and small body and legs on a rectangular base. The body and legs are smooth, while the neck, head, and horns are decorated with incised lines and shapes. In the centre of the neck, triangles are bored through the wood. Curved shapes stick out from the back of the neck, resembling fur or a mane. The front of the neck has a u-shape bored through the wood. Two metal hooks are attached to the wood on the same side; one on the animal's ear and the other on the side of the animal's body. There are two square-shaped holes bored through the base.
Bi-pointed stone head club. The polished stone head tapers at centre and has a hole drilled on one side. It is attached to a handle by inserting the stick into the hole, and then further securing it by wrapping a length of skin around the stone head followed by the shaft. The stick is covered by skin, which is stitched together with hair along one side. It is wrapped with beads in three sections: white, red, white; in between two pieces of red fabric. The end has two short leather tassels and an ornament with a white and a red bed, and hair wrapped in red fabric.
Letter opener with totem pole design. From top, the carved figures are: bird with separately carved and attached wings spread; seated wolf or bear. 'Victoria. B.C.' written on the blade.
Model totem pole. From top, the carved figures are: double bird head's, large bird (with missing wings) and large seated human figure.
Speaking staff. The carved figures are: a killer whale, eagle with folded wings, seated wolf, and raven with long down-turned beak and folded wings. The lower section is plain and cylindrical, slightly tapering in towards the base.
Deep painted tray that is divided into four compartments. The sides of the tray flare out from the square base. The interior bottom of the tray is painted with a black design, a circle within four corners with a four point star at centre, partially covered by the divivder. One wall of the divider has a curved upper edge that extends above the sides of the tray and has a hole drilled through it with a fabric tie attached. The sides of the tray and the divider have all been painted with formline designs in black, red and green.
Ladle with round bowl and long narrow handle. The handle gradually flattens towards the end, where there is a triangle-shaped cutout. The ladle has been painted black and red, which has faded.
Wooden mask depicting a stylized humanoid face. Long fibres are attached to the top of the of the mask; the fibres closest to the face are covered in a dark adhesive(?) similar in colour to the mask's face (paint or stain(?)). The face has a prominent forehead with a thin line portruding down the middle, from the hairline down to the nose where it widens to form the bridge. The nose portrudes off the face and has wide nostrils. Circular eye holes are carved through the wood and are surrounded by slightly raised circles on the mask's front side. There are horizontal indents on the face above the eyes (where the nose begins) and below the bottom of the nose. The face has large, portruding lips that are slightly parted, with a horizontal rectangle carved through the wood in the center of the lips. The back of the mask is concave and undecorated. There are 20 holes carved through the wood along the edge's of the face; all of which are visible from the back side, while only 10 are visible from the front (as the remaining holes are covered by the fibre).
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.
Wood club with a long cylindrical barrel, short shaft and handle - each section separated by raised knob with another at the end. The barrel is carved and painted with four winds designs, a fish, and a water fowl set between a black and red snake that is wrapped around the barrel. The designs are painted red and black on a white background. The barrel tapers in slightly to a cylindrical knob carved with zigzag designs. The handle is carved and painted with an upside-down face. There is string tied around end knob.