Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art. Collected: Axel Rasmussen

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Eight-sided bentwood baby carrier, with rope handles at top end. There are four holes at base. Ropes are attached inside. The bottom is nailed to the sides, and split down the centre.

Oblong wooden frontlet featuring a carved human figure with raised arms in kneeling position. Faint traces of paint around face and eyes in black and red.

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a square bottom. Birch bark is bent and laced into place. A twig splint around the rim is closely overcast for reinforcement, with several bands of crabapple (?) bark beaded in. Geometrical design is scratched on: two rows of scallops bordering chevron strip. Darker part of bark is to the outside. The overcasting is mainly thin strips of natural coloured root (?) with strips of black dyed root (five stitches wide) - two on ends and two on sides. Only the side portions of the natural root overcasting is beaded in a 1:1 ratio.

Brown birch bark basket with a circular top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place, with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; decorative bands of crabapple beading are featured along the rim. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Large birch bark basket. Birch bark bent and laced together with birch root. Birch twig around rim is overcast with dyed root. Design is scratched on. Design on side one: vertical stripes of triangles on lines. Side two: vertical strips filled with oblique strokes bordered by triangles. Rim is overcast with dyed root (?). Dark part of bark is to the outside.

Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place with birch twine around the rim overcast with birch root and partially beaded with crabapple(?) bark. Geometric patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.

Pair of model snowshoes: wooden frame with an upturned toe; laced with hide; red and purple wool pom-poms decorate toe and heel.