Large mask with short broad beak and big flaring nostrils. Short curved frill covered along rim with cedar bark fringe. On top of head are feathers, cedar bark fringe and three other smaller bird heads. Black, white and red.

Large bundles of dried cedar bark strips.

Checker work weave basket. Sides and base are approximately the same weave with one twilled row separating them. Border is wrapped over splint and braided. Very poor condition; basket is collapsed and in pieces.

Two trolling fish hooks with bone points lashed on with bark, both have long and flexible shafts made from whalebone. A) has a slightly curved shaft.; Good.These two fishhooks would have been used for catching spring salmon or cod. They both have antler points, which are attached with bark to the baleen shafts.Exhbited: On loan to'Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage', at the Anchorage Museum, Alaska, 27 March- 7 September 2015; and the Washington State Historical Museum Tacoma/Seattle 16 October- 10 January 2016

Very large tapa cloth with pattern showing square divisions. The outside columns are left an un-pigmented light brown, with numbers inscribed in dark black and brown. The inner columns feature geometric designs and images.

Coiled cedar root basket and lid with cedar slat foundation. Imbricated designs in black dyed cherry bark and cat-tail. Parallel slat construction. Lid has slat edge with overcast splint construction. Cherry bark beading decorates edge of lid. (The lid is currently on top of basket A8454, but does not appear to be original to that basket?)

One piece of styrofoam, one plastic cap fragment and one unmodified bark fragment. K. Meyers 5/9/2011

Slat woven cedar basket decorated with cherry bark.

sample of double-twist cedar bark twine made by Evelyn McHalsie and Teresa Carlson at the Shxwt'a:selhawtxw Interpretive Centre (1996)

sample of double-twist cedar bark twine made by Evelyn McHalsie and Teresa Carlson at the Shxwt'a:selhawtxw Interpretive Centre (1996)