Cable-backed, double recurve bow, made of musk ox horn. The main body of the bow is a long thick slab of horn, with copper rivets holding it together at its joins. Behind the horn is a layer of dark brown hide or skin running the full length. Each end of the horn bow has a knob projecting up and down, around which many strips of hide lashings have been wrapped from end to end. The lengthwise lashings are wrapped widthwise by other hide lashings and then the full thickness of the bow is wrapped near each end and in the middle. The bow string is looped around each end knob, and hangs loosely.

Footed arrow consisting of a wooden and antler shaft, a copper arrowhead, and no fletchings. Its nock end is oblong and has about a centimeter of wrapped sinew on the shaft above it. The other end has a both a hole and a slit cut into it lengthwise to facilitate the hafting of the antler component. It is also wrapped with sinew. There is a depression near the nock end where fletchings would have previously been attached. The antler component is inserted into the hole of the wooden part and is attached to the arrowhead by a socketed tang. The arrowhead is almost pentagonal in shape.

Pocket knife with antler casing and metal tools. Implements accompanying the large knife blade are a corkscrew, hole punch/scraper, and a small saw. All open out of the sides of the knife. The tools are attached to the antler casing with small metal finishing nails.

Pear shaped wooden opium scales with long dowel-like neck and spherical end. A loosely braided fibre ring fits around the neck. Object is cut in half widthwise and, pivoting on a bolt fixed through the end of the neck, slides open. Revealed in its inner cavities are a shallow, circular metal dish, a small oval piece of flint(?) and a long, cylindrical bone stick all tied with brown and black string. The bone stick is covered in black dots arranged in a linear pattern and has a small thin piece of blue string tied at one end.

Knife (a) with sheath (b). Blade is long and narrow, coming to a sharp point. Handle is cylindrical, made of metal and antler. Sheath is metal with embossed designs, and is wrapped in dark red fabric with a tassel on the end. The tip of the sheath is flattened and has a wood guard on the inside.

Beaded necklace with silver barrel-style clasp. Beads are smallest closest to clasp and those at bottom of necklace vary in size and shape. Three large zigzag beads with spherical beads on either side hang at the bottom of the necklace, along with other spherical beads of varying sizes. Two large cylindrical beads which taper slightly towards the top hang on either side of the necklace. All beads have carved designs except for the smaller spherical beads towards the clasp.

Pear shaped wooden opium scales with long dowel-like neck and spherical end. A braided fibre ring fits around the neck. Object is cut in half widthwise and, pivoting on a bolt fixed through the end of the neck, slides open. Revealed in its inner cavities are a shallow, circular metal dish, a small rectangular piece of flint(?) and a long, cylindrical bone stick all tied with brown, black and pink string. The bone stick is covered in black dots arranged in a linear pattern.

Hilda and Al Schein Collection

Hilda and Al Schein Collection

Rattle made of a gourd. The head of the rattle is dark brown and bulbous and has various light coloured patterns of lines and swirls carved into it. The wooden handle is wrapped with thin fibre where it meets the head, and is decorated with a long thin bone ? bead. On top of the rattle head is a feather and another smaller bone ? bead, both attached to the rattle by the same fibre as is found on the handle. The rattle contains sound making elements inside the gourd.