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A headdress with a high vertical rounded front and flat top sloping downward to the back which is a shorter vertical band. Frame is of wire covered with intricately interlaced bands of black silk braid and fabric. Attached to the headdress with wires, there are convex gold-coloured brass plaques in the shape of flowers and leaves, all inlaid with iridescent bright blue, and darker blue-purple kingfisher feathers outlined with metal. The centres of the flowers are formed of circles of many wires with rounded ends, surrounding inset stones in blue, and green.
A flat long thin dark brown wood which has two concave curves linking together near the middle and has triangular points at each end. Has geometric linear pattern with curves and a human figure carved in the middle of the top end of one side. Decorated with four shell inlays, two on each side.
Gourd container with geometric design created with copper wire inserted into the surface. The design consists of two solid bands at the top and bottom of the container, and four columns of three triangle shapes around the centre.
A brown wood club with a fiddle-like shape and a cylindrical handle that has a large knob at the end. Both sides are carved with a similarly bilaterally symmetrical and geometrically stylized designed face which has circular inlaid shell eyes. The headdress of one, however, has three horizontal sections of vertical patterning while the headdress of the other has v-shaped patterning with a vertical line down along the middle.
Stylized human figure flat brown wood club with a paddle-like shape. One side is carved with elaborate geometric patterns all over the body, two circular inlaid abalone shell eyes, an open oval mouth with the tongue hanging out to slightly to its right side, and the two hands clasped together at the front holding an abalone shell object. The other side is carved with a log-like house on the top with an abalone shell inlaid star and crescent moon above on either sides, a diamond-shaped inlaid abalone shell in the middle, and a face at the bottom with oval inlaid abalone shell eyes slanting diagonally downward toward the small nose, below which, there is an open oval mouth with the tongue hanging out slightly to its left side, underneath which, a paddle and a spear cross with a sitting figure to their left side. There is a flat handle.
Two pieces of brown wood lashed together with fibre near each end. There is a face at the open hollow end with downward slanted shell eyes toward the small nose. A sideways figure-eight open mouth has perpendicular lines around the lips and two vertically curved features equally spaced within. Bilaterally symmetrical pattern of spirals with a somewhat heart-shaped open hole toward the middle of the body. Decorated with a diamond-shaped shell, a vertical oval-shaped shell, and a circular shell near toward the bottom end which has a rounded knob.
A small dark brown-black finished wood box with a rectangular shape. The lid (part b) slides vertically off of the top of the box (part a). The box has intricate geometric triangular patterns. The lid is carved with a human figure (tiki) that has an elaborate headdress, a pair of two long grooves slanting diagonally downward toward the short angular nose, circular shell eyes, a compressed heart-shaped mouth opening to show the tongue, spirals on the shoulders, geometric patterns on the body, and three-fingered hands resting under the belly.
Tanto style knife with an elaborately ornamented wooden sheath and handle. The knife handle has two inlaid abalone shell butterflies. The sheath has inlaid and raised floral and leaf designs of mother of pearl, ivory, and lacquer work. There is a small green seal.
Red lacquered box (part b) and a lid (part a) with overlaid crest designs and a cart. Within the box, there is an ink stone (part c), and a water pot (part e), which each have a fitted place in a frame. An ink stick (part d), with dark blue and gold writing characters on a black background is also included with a small box that has a lid. Two calligraphy brushes are inside with one brush (part f) having a dark brown spotted pattern on a natural brown background with red and green writing characters and a clear lid while the other brush (part g) has white paper with black writing characters wrapped around the end and a retractable lid.
A hollow red pipe with a T-shape, of which one end is very short and closed and the other end is a long, open, semi-rounded pipe with flattened bottom. Design all around lead shows animals, birds, canoes, and people, including a white man and Ojibwa man shaking hands.