Small argillite pole with carved animal figures and human faces. At the base is Bear Mother with twin cubs. The bear has an open mouth and tongue out, clutching two inverted cub faces in its outstretched paws. Above is a killer whale, facing downward, with its tailfins curling back over the top of pole. The back of the pole is smooth and concave. The base is a square of thin argillite.

Silver spoon with an oval shaped bowl and a handle that ends in a triangulated point, curving back at the tip. The front of the spoon has an engraved Northwest coast style hummingbird design. The back has a thin linear design all around the edge (except the tip); the bottom end of the bowl has a somewhat triangular design formed with rows of the same tiny lines.

Silver spoon with an oval shaped bowl and a handle that ends in a triangulated point, curving back at the tip. The front of the spoon has an engraved Northwest coast style eagle design. The back has a thin linear design all around the edge (except the tip); the bottom end of the bowl has a somewhat triangular design formed with rows of the same tiny lines.

Silver spoon with an oval shaped bowl and a handle that ends in a triangulated point, curving back at the tip. The front of the spoon has an engraved Northwest coast style whale design. The back has a thin linear design all around the edge (except the tip); the bottom end of the bowl has a somewhat triangular design formed with rows of the same tiny lines.

Silver spoon with an oval shaped bowl and a handle that ends in a triangulated point, curving back at the tip. The front of the spoon has an engraved Northwest coast style hummingbird design. The back has a thin linear design all around the edge (except the tip); the bottom end of the bowl has a somewhat triangular design formed with rows of the same tiny lines.

Silver spoon with an oval shaped bowl and a handle that ends in a triangulated point, curving back at the tip. The front of the spoon has an engraved Northwest coast style whale design. The back has a thin linear design all around the edge (except the tip); the bottom end of the bowl has a somewhat triangular design formed with rows of the same tiny lines.

Silver spoon with an oval shaped bowl and a handle that ends in a triangulated point, curving back at the tip. The front of the spoon has an engraved Northwest coast style eagle design. The back has a thin linear design all around the edge (except the tip); the bottom end of the bowl has a somewhat triangular design formed with rows of the same tiny lines.

From card: "Carved."Marked on paddles: Yakutat. Identified as Eskimo on catalogue card but appear more Northwest Coast style? Yakutat is home to a number of Tlingit people. Catalogue card identifies locality as Jackson (i.e Howkan), Alaska. Howkan was originally a Tlingit village, but later became a Kaigani Haida village sometime in the early eighteenth century.

Brooklyn Museum Collection

Rectangular wooden tray with short side walls, attached to its base by screws. Walls are straight on the outside and sloped on the interior toward the tray base. The interior base of the tray is decorated with a central incised image of a whale inside a circle, with minimal decoration in blue, black and red. To each side of the circle are similar smaller whales, four in total. The interior side walls of the tray have stylized images of painted whale eyes and fins. Rounded handles are attached to each end wall with screws. On the bottom of the tray is written in red ink, “Carved by Charles Gladstone Skidegate Mission BC 1949”