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Oval-shaped birch bark basket with straight, vertical sides and a flat, fitted lid. Top of lid and sides of basket are entirely covered with multicoloured quillwork--a geometric design on the lid and a zigzagging pattern around the sides. Sides of the lid are made of thin, dark brown strips of willow interwoven with flattened, white quills to create a checkered geometric pattern. Bottom of basket is made from a wooden panel nailed to the birch bark sides
Base consists of a thin wide strip of bark overlaid with seven horizontally laid wood strips. These are bound on alternative diagonal angles with a wrap of thin twisted cedar bark string. Four bundles of cedar bark are sewn onto the top edge of the ring (spaced evenly). An extra piece of bark is sewn onto one side. The inside of the ring is lined with cotton cloth.
Model version of an Eastern woodlands style canoe. Canoe is made from birch bark lashed to a wooden frame with root lacings. Upper edge of the canoe is rimed with a slender branch that is overcast with strips of root. Black, resinous pitch is used to patch seams and holes in the birch bark.
Cedar bark head ring with a carved frontlet of a sun figure in high relief. Frontlet has a broad white face, heavy black eyebrows, a green band painted across the eyes, and is encircled by a green ring; alternating squares of abalone shell and mirror are set into the green ring around the face. Cedar bark head ring is lined with cloth and features three large squares of abalone shell fastened to the outside at evenly spaced intervals.
Bentwood box (part a) and lid (part b) with one side pf lid raised. Box has abstract Northwest Coast design elements painted on all sides, in red and black. Cedar bark rope is tied around the box. Killer whale and sisiutl-like designs in black on the top of lid and the raised portion.
Wooden drumstick with cloth covered head. Cloth is a light, ecru colour. Knob carved at end of stick.
Drumstick with leather thong looped through hole at end of handle. Head bound with the goat's skin and wool.
Cylindrical pouch (part a) is small and shallow with a long flap. Thirty three gambling sticks (parts b-hh), some of which are of different sizes: one stick (part b) has a carved face on the top and is joined with a horn finial; another stick (part c) has a needle-eye-like hole through one end; eight sticks (parts d-k) are decorated with various lines around them; thirteen sticks (parts l-x) are decorated with three lines around the centre; six sticks (parts y-dd) are plain; and four sticks (parts ee-hh) are very thin.
Nuxalk style robe with woven designs. The design is like a three panel distributive, without the panels. The designs are red, yellow and black on natural ground. There are three eagle representations and two thunderbird heads in the centre, a human figure(?) near the top edge and killer whale motifs on the sides. The checkered border along the bottom edge is a raven’s tail design. There is a velvet band sewn along the top edge.
Cover of tightly knitted red string sewn over a wrapped cloth core. Fringes are made of lengths of red-brown string twined across the top and sewn onto the ring in four places that are equally spaced. Circular in shape.