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Four-sided woven basket. A large rectangular top, which tapers in to a small rectangular base. The sides and rim are beaded with cherry bark and cedar bark in a repeating flower-like design, alternating between dark red and black with off-white. The rim of the basket is beaded as well. There are five loops of rawhide tied through the sides of the basket, one on each of three sides, two on the fourth side.
Dance cape made from red and white serge trade cloth. Off-white cut-out appliques on red cloth (winged or stepped "S"-shapes and dots), with an off-white fringe border and collar. Cape is composed of three pieces of red fabric, stitched together to form about 270 degrees of a circle. There are two bone(?) toggles at the collar, and a single loop extending from the right side.
Long woven tumpline with repeating geometric pattern. Design is of repeated triangles, in light purple and red or burgundy, which form V-shapes and lines with a yellow background. Each end is finished with alternating bands of heathered black and light green, which tapers to warp fibres that are braided to create the carrying straps. Knots have been tied at both ends.
Carved and painted wooden walking stick. Broken into two pieces - top portion (part a) and lower portion (part b). The grip is bulbous, and extends down into a carved shaft. The figures from top to bottom - killer whale (dorsal fin goes up, forehead, pectoral fin), upside-down eagle (wing comes out, feathers fold over the other feathers), bear, wolf, human head, small animal (bird?) which is being consumed by a sea or snake-like creature, whose scaled body extends down to the tip of the cane.
Model wooden totem pole. Carved figures from bottom to top: frog, beaver, killer whale(?), eagle, [unknown figure], frog, [bear/wolf/sea lion], eagle with an eaglet in front. The back of the pole is plain with a single metal tack.
Traditional Chinese style scroll painting. Long, vertical scroll with an ink painting on rice paper depicting a servant standing and holding an umbrella, and an elderly man riding a horse next to a river. In the background, there is a large weeping tree. Along the lower left edge is the artist name in two Chinese characters, and in English, and her small red seal. The painting is mounted on a long piece of silk fronted paper, in a light cream colour. A small strip of wood lines the top of the work, with a plaited silk hanging string attached and two ties. A large decorative wooden dowel is attached at bottom.
Fishing creel basket with attached lid. The basket is constructed of coil weaving with an irregular curved rectangular base, concave back and convex sides creating a bulge at the centre of basket narrowing to rounded rectangular mouth. Imbricated with insect designs in red and black bark. The lid is attached by two rawhide ties. There is a rectangular hole woven in the centre of the lid. There is a small slit in the front edge of the lid, and just below the rim of the basket. The interior is plain. (A brown shoelace has been tied to the back of the basket.)