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Wool tumpline with horizontal triangular pattern in red on tan background, woven on a bark warp. The ties are braided and knotted plant fibre (possibly birch?).
Natural coloured bag with faded red striped design alternating with thin black stripes of fabric. Unfinished edge at opening.
Green and red fabric with black edging. Floral beadwork on bottom of red fabric, in white, black, orange and blue beadwork (floral). White beads along black edging on red fabric. LIght brown cotton on reverse.
Skin bag with fringe; pink, black and beige silk tassels on top of skin tassels at the end of the drawstring mouth closure. The front and back have a differing embroidered floral design in fuchsia pink, red, blue, green, orange and pink.
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.