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Carved and painted model pole with a halibut as the base. The figures above the halibut are: crab, octopus, bear holding a seal, killer whale with a seal in its mouth, and eagle. The halibut base is grey with black circle-in-circle eyes, a sideways mouth, black dashes on the side fin, black dashes along the top and the bottom and at the tail. The crab is red with circle-in-circle black eyes and its legs curled under. The octopus has black circle-in-circle eyes surrounded by a tapering red oval and a green area that connects across the bridge of the nose with black brows and black on top of the head; it also has a black outlined open red beak showing a plain tongue. The bear holding a seal has a black body, black circle-in-tapering-oval eyes surrounded by a green area with black brows above, red and green u form ears, green nostrils, an open mouth showing twenty-six plain teeth. The seal has a black body with black circle-in-circle eyes, red nostrils, and an open mouth showing eight plain teeth. The seal has a side fin and a tail, and curves to the left side. The killer whale with the seal in its mouth has a black body with black circle-in-circle eyes, a green nose with red nostrils, and an open mouth showing nineteen plain teeth. The killer whale has side fins and a dorsal fin with a frontal face and red u form within a larger black one that has a red ovoid within at the top. The seal is black with rounded eyes and nostrils and a curving body facing to the left side. The eagle at the top has oval black eyes surrounded by a green area with black brows above and a red lined beak. The outstretched side wings have four feathers with red u forms within larger black ones.
A yellow-brown wood ladle with a deep, curving bowl and a handle that is flat on the interior and rounded on the exterior.
Wooden frontlet featuring a large bird's head over a small human-like head with two paws to the sides; paws and bird's curved beak are three-dimensional, protruding from the surface. Painted red, black and green, with parts left in natural wood.
Small bentwood box with yellow cedar lid and walls and a red cedar bottom. Sides are carved and painted, in the image of a bear. Artist initials inside box and lid.
Sculptural installation in the form of two very large lahal sticks. Each is installed vertically, and rotates on a central axis. The 'male' stick (part a) has a wide copper band around its centre, with the Royal Proclamation of 1763 acid-etched into it. The 'female' stick (part b) has 5 copper inlay hands, each with a year acid-etched into it. Both have carved hands protruding from the main post - one pair of hands extend palm-up in the lower area; 8 fisted hands extend out, around the post, above the central area; one hand points downward from the upper area. Both sticks also have two colour-stained, wood veneer bands at each end, with inlaid abalone figures between them. The 'male' stick has 2 crown and 2 jester hat shapes between the top bands, and 2 trees and fish between the bottom bands. The 'female' stick has 2 trees and fish between its top bands, and 3 pairs of sticks between the bottom bands.
Model totem pole with two figures: bear at bottom, thunderbird at top. Thunderbird has large, outstretched wings (parts b-c), each screwed into the back of the pole. Painted black, green, orange, brown, yellow and white.
Food bowl with convex sides, the two longer sides with a top edge that scoops down at the centre and the two shorter sides with top edges that arch upwards. Each side and the base is made from a different piece of wood, and the top edges are painted red and inset with off-white opercula shells. The sides of the dish are painted with designs in black and red.
Set of painted lehal sticks (11 game sticks: five are blue with black bands, five are blue with red bands, 1 has red and black bands) and leather tie which ties around the whole group of sticks. (Game sticks are a-k, leather tie is part l).
The shape of the mask is like a high triangle, two planes intersecting on the median of the face. The heavy eyebrows are painted black, but are not raised. The brow slopes and projects sharply above the nose. Each eye is set in a concave orb in the mask. The eye is made up of a painted white ring surrounding a round hole (2 cm. in diameter, 2 mm deep). The hooked nose is long and narrow and merges with the backswept cheek planes. Up-thrusted narrow nostrils are painted orange. The mouth, encircled by a concave recess, is formed by full, protruding lips, drawn back slightly separated and painted orange. Along the top edge of the mask extend strands of black hair shredded and twisted cedar bark strands, and grey-white feathers. Inside the mask is a leather frame to fit the head.
Bee mask. Slightly rounded white forehead has a black and yellow horizontal curvilinear design, red ovoid at centre of yellow; raised thick curved black brows; thin yellow line joins orbital areas at dip between forehead and large protruding bulbous snout; yellow round hollow protruding eyes with black and white bands around pupil; snout has black triangular shape at top and bottom joined by a narrow band, black outline; cluster of five holes, top hole on right has remains of 'stinger'; white, yellow and red crescentic designs around circular white hollow nostrils; white temple; defining line for cheeks melds with orbital ridge; curvilinear black line on cheek; square-like white line defines black split U on either side of mouth area; white and yellow bands around small pointed protruding red lip band, painted design converges at lower lip point; yellow triangle on upturned chin is outlined in white. Cut cedar bark, tied with white cord, folded around a folded orange-pink cloth and nailed to upper rim; white cord and red cloth are twined into the cedar bark lengths; at side on right folded white cloth, stitched with yellow thread, is nailed at temples; brown cord twined into first 7cm. of bark. On reverse, one brown cord passes through two holes in upper rim, looped and knotted through hole at each temple; second cord is looped and knotted through chin.