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Small string puppet of a prince or king character. He wears matching dark blue tunic and pants. The tunic has a metal gold belt and a large bright blue plastic(?) jewel decoration adhered to a shield-shaped textile on his chest. The tunic and pants are hemmed with bronze embroidery ribbon. He wears a long red cape with off-white fur collar. He has painted light grey-blue socks and brown shoes. He has pink lips, blue eyes, and reddish-brown ear-length hair, moustache and beard. On top of his head is a red and blue and yellow crown. His hands, legs and face are carved. The control stick is attached to the head by a long metal rod, with strings extending from the control stick to limbs. The body is jointed at the elbows, knees, shoulders, and hips – with fabric upper arms.
Paddle carved from a single piece of light coloured wood, with a raven painted along one side of the blade and onto the throat. Paddle has a flattened ovular blade, thick cylindrical throat, and flattened shaft that flares outward at the top. Shaft has wide notches carved into it, below barrel-shaped grip; grip painted black. Painted raven is made up of formline design elements; done in dark blue, dark red, light blue, black, bronze, and green-blue. Raven's head is pointed downward, touching bottom edge of blade, wings are held close to body, and tail feathers are straightened. Bulbous face- with thick brows, a large nose, and open mouth- painted across upper half of wing. Eyes of raven and face, circle on upper half of tail, and sides of grip are covered with a crushed black mineral. Artist inscription written on back centre of blade: "Raven Led the Way" JADE HANUSE 2023 © Anuximana JH; rest of back is undecorated.
Model totel pole with two carved figures. From top, a thunderbird with eyes outlined in blue and a mouth outlined in red. Wings are painted with red and blue feathers. Left wing has been reattached with adhesive. The thunderbird sits atop the tail of a whale. The whale is positioned head down with eyes outlined in green, nostrils outlined in red, and mouth outlined in purple. 'CHARLIE JAMSON' written on back.
Model totem pole (part a) with detachable wings (parts b-c). Pole has four carved figures, from top: thunderbird with pink beak; a human holding a sea lion upside-down, with a face depicted between the tail flippers; the sea lion holds a sea creature in its mouth. The figures all have eye outlines - thunderbird in blue-green; human in green; the sea lion in blue; and the sea creature has blue. The sea creature's mouth is outlined in red, and has five full and two half black vertical stripes on its body. 'CHARLIE JAMSON' written on back.
Model totem pole (also fragment bag with wing pieces). From top, bird figure, killerwhale, upside-down male figure. The bird has a large head and small body. It is seated on the back of the killerwhale below, with seperately carved wings inserted into its back. It has feathers painted and a face on its chest. The killerwhale is upright with its head bent forward with the lower half of the upside-down male figure partially inside of its mouth.
Vejigante carnival mask of painted paper mache construction. Mask is mainly painted a light grey-blue, with purple and white dots, and purple dashes on the horns. The white face with cut-out holes at the eyes and mouth. There are floral-like designs in gold and purple that spiral out from around the eyes. The eye sockets and nostrils are painted purple, with large false lashes glued to the upper edge of the eye sockets. Three long curved horns project out from the top and sides. The top, centre horn extends up, and curves forward, and has a small gold cross in front of green fern-like leaves. The right horn curls forward, in front of the face, and the left horn curls up and over the head. The top of the head is lined with four large red flowers with yellow stamens, and two orange and black butterfly. On both sides, a small painted white metal key hangs from the horns. The snout has a large open mouth with black stitching along the lips, and three pointed white teeth with red gums. Black, grey and red ribbons are tied to each side of the mask and hang down. The interior is painted red. Signed and dated inside.
Large Vejigante carnival mask of painted paper mache construction. Mask is of a bright yellow, red, and orange sun, with alternating long and short horns extending in a half circle around the head. Mask has a long wide nose, slit eye openings, and wide open mouth with three-pointed teeth; mouth outlined with red paint, teeth done in white. There are pronounced nostrils above centre of mouth, and thin ridges across forehead that connect to horns. Wavy painted lines extend from mouth towards horns; done in dark red and various orange shades. Short horns have wavy uneven edges; long horns are conical with protruding ridges that curl along the length. Gold-coloured semi-circular bar connects the five large horns near their midpoints. Hanging rod, made of plastic pipe, attached to back centre. Interior of mask is painted red; artist signature and date made, "2018 Roman" inscribed along left interior side.
Handmade 28 page book of off-white amate (amatl) paper, illustrating different types of nzahki cut-out figures. Accordian style pages. The front and back covers have green ribbons running horizontally across the top and bottom, extending 4.5 - 5 cm past the edges. The front cover has 2 brown paper cut-out figures adhered to it, with handwritten title(?) in faded red ink (note: ink is mostly too faint to read, but ends with 1975?). Pages 1-7 have handwritten entries in blue ink (in Spanish); pages 8-28 each have a brown paper cut-out figure attached, with handwriting above and captions (name of figure?) below each one.
Two pronged antler carving attached to a stone base. In the lowest section of the antler a human-like face is carved. Just above where the antler splits in two branches, is a carved water spirit(?) type creature with caribou fur for hair and flippers as hands and feet; at the end of that prong another smaller creature with flippers is carved. The other branch sticks out to the side and has a twist carved into most of its length; at the end is a bird-human type creature, carved as if it is biting the branch with a large beak; its two legs and an arm are extended out. The stone base is irregular, but almost square. Unsigned.
Large slab of aged, brown whale bone (part a) used as a base for a hunting scene. A carved stone hunter (part b) stands in a partial crouch at one end, holding a bow and arrow made of antler and sinew, pointed toward a stone caribou (parts c-f) at the other end. The caribou has its legs folded, and has an arrow sticking out of a hole in its side, as well as removable antlers on top of its head. Both stone carvings are positioned on the whale bone base by small pegs (parts g-h); the peg holes are in the man's right foot, and the stomach of the animal. Unsigned.