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Leather bag with blue flannel trim along one side and the bottom. Stuffed with paper, skin (?) and ochre.
Six wands: l) eight eagle quills attached together at one end with two sets of pompoms, two dark red, and two bright red; m) eight eagle quills attached together at one end with two sets of pompoms, two dark red, and two bright red; n) nine eagle quills attached together at one end with four sets of pompoms and two lengths of dark yellow ribbon attached at the sides; o) nine eagle quills attached together at one end with one red pompom attached; p) nine eagle quills attached together at one end with four sets of pompoms, three sets of two bright red and one set of two green, as well as two lengths of yellow ribbon attached at the sides; q) six eagle quills attached together at one end with three tassels attached on one side, two red and one blue. (Only 3 wands are on display, the rest are in storage.)
Two fragments (parts a-b) from a larger copper. The first piece (part a) is relatively rectangular with an orange/bronze-coloured zig zag band across the middle. The second piece (part b) is relatively rectangular with angular sides and is undecorated while also curving inward along one side.
Mask of a woman's face with a swiveling bird on top. The red-brown face has circular cut out hole eyes outlined by black and surrounded by a white tapering oval with black brows above and a vertical ridge in between up to the black hairline. The nostrils are cut out as is the open white mouth. The cheeks are painted with a pair of black u forms. The bird on top has black tapering oval eyes surrounded by a plain carved tapering oval with a black head, a red-brown beak and body, and brown fur for the wings. The bird is perched on white feathers. Skin strips are tied around the back at the top and at either side with mulit-coloured patterned cloth and a wood stick.
Mask representing a woman. The plain brown face has circular cut out hole eyes outlined by black and surrounded by a plain tapering oval with black brows above. The nostrils are red as is the mouth. The upraised black hairline is outlined by red. There are a series of holes at either side.
A black rubbing of a grave stone that is vertically rectangular. The top point has a design consisting of a plant (bushel of wheat?) on the left side, and the bottom has a design consisting of a pentagon shape that has a diamond angled inward at the top centre with an ivy leaf design on the left side. The grave stone is written with the words 'In memory / of NICODEMUS / DOAKH-A-K?YISH / Died at / Kish - piax / Skeena River B.C. The rubbing is on vertically rectangular, light white-yellow paper.
A book (part a) and a feather (part b). The book (part a) has a brown cover and a title of 'W'iigyet's Journey' in black on the front. The pages are white with black lettering and artwork in red and black. A few pages have 'pop-up' artwork. Sections include the following: 'Introduction', 'W'ii Gyet's First Home', 'Feast of the Sun for The Creatures of the Forest', and 'Acknowledgements'. The book is signed and dated on the last page: 'Limited Edition of 10 / W'ii Gyet's Journey / August 2002 / Author / Artist Doreen Jensen / Collaborator / Paper Engineer cindy chan piper / Date December 2002 Edition No. 10'. The dark grey feather (part b) is attached to a twisted cedar bark cord and acts as a bookmark.
Soul catcher made of a hollow tubular piece of bone with inlaid abalone. Each end of the tube flares slightly and is carved out in silhouette to represent the open mouth of a creature resembling a bear, wolf, or whale. Abalone shell is inlaid on one side of the faces at teeth, eyes, cheeks, ears and nostrils.
Gold bracelet consisting of an outer surface covered entirely with carved design and crosshatched detailing. Main animal image is a raven in profile with the head facing the left. Beside the back of the head are the talons and on the right side of the bracelet is the wing. Bracelet ends don't meet at back; edges are slightly rounded. The signature inscribed on the inside reads 'PJanze 79.'
Print with three quadrangular light green shapes in the background. One is a vertical rectangle at the top left corner, below which, there is a second rectangle with a semi-circular indent at its top right corner and the third is an inverted and reversed "L" shape at the top right corner that extends to the bottom right corner. Over these, there are overlapping abstract design elements in red, blue-green, and black that include u forms, ovoids, and circles. Pencil inscription across the bottom edge reads'21/50 WOLVES HOWLING AT THE MOON IN NEW YORK CITY Ken M. Mowatt / 89'. The print is on a vertically rectangular, white paper piece.