Carving in green mottled stone of a seal flipper bag. Carving imitates a skin bag, leaning back in a slumped fashion, with a flat bottom. Bag is depicted closed with a drawstring at top, a looped handle standing above this. The lines of a seal’s flipper are carved into the bottom front.

Pipe. Head (part a) is carved from soapstone, with an octagonal chamber, and a thin ring of brass at base of shank. The stem (part b) is made from smooth, red brown wood, with a flattened lip and bit, rounding through the mid-point. Tenon is black.

Small soapstone oil lamp, light grey in colour with specks of dark grey. Shape from top view is a half circle, with a straight front side. Walls on exterior are short and straight, flaring slightly on interior to the base of the carved well.

Small soapstone oil lamp, dark grey in colour. Shape from top view is a half circle, with a straight front side. Walls are straight on exterior, flaring slightly on interior to the base of the shallow, carved well.

Soapstone oil lamp, light grey in colour with darker specks. Shape is rectangular, with straight sides that incline slightly toward base. Carved well is deep. Small straight handles have been carved into the short sides of the object, and protrude slightly.

Model kayak. Thin pieces of bent wood tied together with sinew make a rigid interior frame that is covered with a single piece of stretched hide, sewn together along the top of the kayak. Two harpoons (?) with wood handles attached by sinew to bone heads are held to the model in front of the cockpit, strapped in place by two thin, horizontal deck lines of hide. A carved piece of bone is positioned directly in front of the cockpit. Two holes have been bored through its base, which hold the deck lines in place.

54 beads strung on a metal wire, with metal clasp at one end and loop on the opposite. Each bead is carved from tusk and shaped into a oblong orb. The surface of the beads has been polished to a shine. Colour varies in each bead, and is often mottled, from dark amber to light yellow. (Part b is a detached bead. Parts c-d are the old clasp: two round plastic tube-shaped pieces that screw together, and each has a hole in the end.)

Lithograph print on wove paper. Image shows 18 rectangular blocks, three rows of six stacked side by side, drawn with rippled black lines. On top of each row a caribou head hangs down, coloured dark grey with slits representing closed eyes. Each animal has two long curving horns atop its head. Inscription in pencil under image. Impressed into the bottom left corner of the paper is the Cape Dorset stamp.

Linocut stencil print showing three human figures dressed in snowsuits, the central one green and the outer two grey, all with hoods up. All wear boots and mittens coloured blue, yellow or pink, palms facing the viewer. The faces are broad, with large eyes, long eyebrows, and wide mouths. Impressed into the bottom right corner of the paper is a circle containing syllabics.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.