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Wooden carving from the top section of a duntsik or power board, used in winter dances. The design is cutout and outlined in black paint. The image represented is a sisiutl. (Fragment of larger object.)
"The Raven Dances with Frogs" robe. Hand-woven chilkat style child's robe, shaped like a horizontal rectangle on three sides, with the lower edge curving downward to the centre. Long warp fringes of brown and white yarn along the lower edge tapered to be the longest at the centre, with supplementary fringes of white yarn. Main panel is composed of complex formline design in black, white, yellow, and turquoise, outlined in narrow black and white braids, a wide surround of yellow, another band of braids, and an outer surround in black. Double band of braids of brown and white yarn at each side, ending in four bands of wrapped yarn, two black alternating with two yellow. The main panel has a rectangular human-like face at the centre front, above which are two yellow eye forms containing frog faces. Below the rectangular form are two inverted eye forms, beside which are feet with claws. Above these on each side are two more eye forms in yellow. At the midpoint of each side edge is a rectangular profile human-like face looking inwards towards the centre. Throughout the robe the braid outlining is raised from the finely-woven surface, making it three-dimensional. Only the major designs show on the reverse, not the braids.
Dark brown club carved out of wood; humanoid figure crouched atop a handle.
Rectangular flared, coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) and parallel slat base construction. Upper half of basket is fully imbricated with the design in black bark of mirror image geometric scroll shapes on each side. Bottom half of basket has imbricated "flying goose" design, alternating in rows of red and black bark with grass in between.
Wooden model river canoe. The canoe is carved from a brown wood and unpainted. The bow and stern are identical. The underside of the canoe slopes to reach a gentle point.
Long shallow model canoe. The canoe is carved from a reddish-brown wood and the exterior has been lacquered. A hole has been drilled through the bow and the stern. The bow and stern are identical.
Arrow composed of a long cedar shaft with two feathers bound to the end with thin dark brown fibrous material, and the tips of the feathers are bound with off-white string. Point missing.
Arrow with a double-barbed copper point that has two other barbs that point outwards perpendicular to the shaft of the arrow tip at the base of the arrow head shaft. Plain cedar shaft with remains of feathers bound to shaft near butt end with thin dark brown fibre.
Arrow shaft composed of a long piece of cedar that has a slightly flared notched end, a charred (?) spiral design on the shaft, and the end where the arrow tip would be is wrapped in off-white fibre with charcoal pigment (?) covering most of the fibre. Point is missing.
Cape consisting of long shreds of alternating red and yellow cedar bark folded over at the top and fixed with a row of twine. Additional row of twining halfway down the length. The top has a band of deteriorated grey wool. Numerous eagle ? feathers tied on at intervals.