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Pair of buckskin gloves, or gauntlets, with a flared cuff. Crossed horseshoes embroidered in purple silk, three stripes embroidered in gold and purple; buckskin fringe on outer edge. Grey silk lining.
Pair of buckskin gloves, or gauntlets. Leaf and floral design embroidered in green, pink, and mauve on hand; buckskin fringe around gauntlet. Yellow on red ground polka dotted cotton lining. Machine sewn.
Coiled basket (part a) with handles, lid (part b), and woven carrying strap (part c). Made of simple coiled work (with bifurcated stitches); parallel splint foundation; foot is beaded. Partially imbricated: diamond designs in red, black and light yellow, with smaller diamonds at each point of the larger diamond; pattern carries over onto lid. Foot is beaded in crabapple bark. Remaining handle (three coiled rows) is imbricated in alternating four stitches of red cherry and four of black. Carrying strap is diagonally plaited and braided cedar bark.
Large flat leaf-shaped iron blade. Fixed to the blade with compresses of spruce resin are two antler spurs (elk ?) incised with designs of wolf and snake. Also attached, there is a heavy lanyard of twisted sinew (whale or sea-lion) (used to attach head to long line). Engraved with lightning serpent imagery.
Spruce root basket lid; plain twined work with twilled design on sides. Chevron twilled design on sides alternating with checkered brown and natural in between. Band on top alternates brown and natural with every warp strand (five rows wide).
Swamp grass covered glass vase; wrapped twined weave with two bands of crossed-warp openwork (with no weft elements) and band of plain twined weave top and bottom. Complex bands top and bottom composed of several sub-bands with two central figures: bird on whale; canoe with five human figures inside. Colours used are red, purple, green, brown and orange.
Large flared cylindrical cedar root basket (bifurcated stitches). Watch-spring base construction. Imbricated design of large zig-zag, oultined in dark cherry bark, with two rows of cat-tail grass (?), and a row of red cherry bark in between. In the widest part of each "v" is one hourglass shape - on the bottom row they are red with cat-tail grass (?) centers, on the top row they are red with cat-tail grass (?) and black centers.
Cedar root coiled basket with a flat, elliptical bottom and flaring rectangular sides; simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) elongated watch-spring base construction. Partially imbricated and beaded. Partially imbricated: vertical stripes reaching from rim to five rows from base. Base is beaded with red cherry bark. Colours: black, tan.
Rectangular coiled carrying basket (with bifurcated stitches). Parallel coiled base construction (changing to watch-spring at edges). Imbrication of vertical diamond and half-diamond (or triangular) shape in vertical arrangement (2 on each of the larger sides, 1 on each of the shorter sides). Black and red are reversed in alternate figures.
Part (a) Urn shaped coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with foot, double looped border, and lid with knob and flange, part (b). Watch-spring base and lid construction. Imbricated designs of black cherry bark diamonds with center cat-tail grass (?) as top row near rim. Verical rows of graduated sizes of chevrons, largest at base, in varying colours; cat-tail grass (?0 at top, red cherry bark at middle, and two dark cherry bark chevrons near bottom filled in with red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?). Between these vertical rows are single large 'V' shapes, in red and dark cherry bark, with cat-tail grass (?) at center. Imbrication on foot has bands of red and dark cherry bark near rim, then horizontal row of adjoined upside down triangles, in red cherry bark, cat-tail grass and dark cherry bark, alternating with reverse colour configuration. Top of handle is beaded in black and red cherry bark.