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Model pole carved of whale bone. Eagle at the top, perched on a crouching human figure, then a bird-like figure with claws or talons at the base. Eyes, some lines and background areas have been coloured black (ink or paint?). Back of pole smooth and slightly concave. Pole attached to rounded base, with scalloped pattern, by two metal screws. Artist name, place and date inscribed on back.
Painting on paper, of the front painted screen on a long house. Thunderbird with killer whale in talons on viewer's left; killer whale and two lightening snakes on viewer's right. Mainly in black, with yellow, orange and red on faces and wings. Inscription on painting reads: "Clutesi /1971"
Large, kidney-shaped, hand-woven basket; cedar slat construction, wrapped with cedar root; decorated with alternating stipes of imbrication in black and red cherry bark and pale yellow grass. Small half-circle handles attached near top edge at each end. Fourteen vertical stripes around all sides of basket; each set consists of 2 bark, 2 grass, 3 bark, 2 grass, 2 bark, some in black bark and grass, others in red bark and grass. Remains of secondary handles at both corners of the indented side (small root remains in four holes at one end; holes are empty at other end.) Old repair runs along the top edge on the outer side.
Circular, handheld drum made from hide stretched over a wooden frame. Drum has four lengths of wire across the back with cloth covering the centre juncture, forming a handle. Drumstick (part b): head of drumstick covered with black cloth; small section next to head painted green.
'Ksan Doors: four large cedar panels that join in pairs. Each panel is covered with carved figures and designs, with an uncarved border around the edges.
Cedar bark basket with no seams (sides have collapsed). Inside the basket were found fragmented strands of dentalium shell, blue beads, and bark (now grouped as part b); and a large quantity of loose dentalium shells and fragments (now grouped as part c).
Cuff style silver bracelet. Most of the surface is covered with a double bear(?) motif. The animals face each other, with their noses almost touching at the centre; their back ends and hind feet touch the thin outline at the cuff ends; background mainly filled with crosshatching. Lightly engraved inside: "Carved by C Gladstone Skidegate Mission BC 1951".
Argillite figurative carving of Wasco, Bear and a human; Wasco is upright, facing out to one side, and back to back with Bear, who stands facing out to the other side, and holds an upside-down human by the legs; both are attached to the carved, rectangular base.
T-shaped maul, carved from stone.
Traditional style harbour canoe. The designs painted on the outside are Thunderbird and Killer Whale, with a black background.