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Wooden bow that tapers towards the ends, with a slight curve, an indented centre, and notches at either end. Shallowly carved fish design with abalone shell inlay on one side.
Dark brown spoon with a tapering, curved handle. Handle is elaborately carved with zoomorphic and human figures. Break between handle and bowl has been repaired multiple times.
Maul made from a large piece of stone lashed to a slender wooden handle. Cylindrically-shaped section of rough stone - flat on either end with a large circumferal groove around the middle to secure the hafting lashing. Flattened on one side to sit firmly on hafting. Lashed to carved wood hafting platform with hide strips from which a curving branch provides a handle. Shallow circumferal groove near handle butt.
Brown-yellow spoon carved from horn with a deep, elongated brown and two adjacent notches on the handle. Small circular hole through end of handle.
Wooden model canoe with a ridge running along the interior of the gunwale.
Fibre rope necklace with four decorated bundles. A wooden rectangular end wrapped in cedar bark and black and red fibre then tied with twine with a swan head mounted on top that would dangle, beak down. The left side has a small cedar strip bundle covered in ermine fur. The back section is two ermine skins wrapped together. The right side is a bird wing plus part of the body intertwined with another animal.
Roughly cylindrical, light brown woven basket (a) with lid (b). Base: four rows of plaiting. Sides and lid: plain twined work with cedar root beading and embroidery. Two upper and two lower rows of beading in cedar root. Discrete sections (nine rows) of cedar root wrapped around twining; each section is separated by five vertical rows. Lid has same design. Handles on the lid are braided with an odd number of strands so as to form two solid, rounded handles which cross over each other.
Rounded point backed by a fore-shaft with six pairs of large barbs. Flat, rounded butt is fixed with a moveable iron loop or eye (for attaching retrieval line). Parallel diagonal lines along both faces of this point indicate that it was made from a file.
Iron or steel blade with flaring, unifacially bevelled, curved bit. Lashed with leather thong to a carved hafting platform with an acutely-angled branch providing a handle.
A brown wood spoon with a narrow bowl and a beaver-shaped handle. The downward facing beaver has circular black eyes, small ears at the back of the head, a vertical black line down the nose with three black lines at either side to create a v-shape, and an open red mouth showing twelve plain teeth. The body is decorated with black lines and the tail is cross hatched. This spoon is carved in a light hardwood and elaborated with black stripes in handmade native pigment, with red pigment in the mouth.