Large rectangular Cedar slat basket with red cherry bark decorations and a lid. Cedar has darkened significantly. The decorations have also chipped off significantly. There is white and black residue on the lid. The inside of the basket has paper residue adhered to the base. There is also green spots where metal had oxidized inside the basket. The rim on the exterior of the base is heavily damaged.

woven cedar basket, diamond pattern, donated by Patricia Reimer who lives locally and hoped we could take care of it. Previously belonged to her aunt in Vancouver, Patricia remembers it from her childhood in her aunt's living room (1950s?) Pictures are added for reference/identification only, please update these with good photographs

Birch bark basket.

Round birch bark box (part a) with a flat, fitted lid (part b); decorated with intricate porcupine quillwork. Top of lid has a central sun-like design inside of a circle; band between circle and edge of lid. Sun-like design made up of eight diamonds with criss-crossing quills; quills protrude upward in centre of diamonds. In space between sun and edges of circle, are triangles with quills woven in them to form additional diamonds. Band around central circle, around edge of lid, made up of alternating diamonds and hourglass-shapes; diamonds have quills criss-crossing over one another. Sides of lid and box are decorated with row of alternating diamonds and hourglass-shapes; diamonds have cross-hatching through them. All edges of box and lid are framed by bundles of fibre. Quillwork on box forms lip for lid to rest on. Interior and base are undecorated. Artist name and year made written along interior of lid, and around edge of base.

Conical basketry hat with pointed knob at crown; hat flares out to wide opening. Coloured bands throughout hat; three around knob and crown, and two frame woven scenes across body of hat. Scene on front of hat has multiple boats of whalers hunting two whales; scene on back depicts a large whale behind a boat. Bands and scenes done in dark grey. Cedar bark band sewn into interior of hat.

Conical basketry hat with knob at crown; hat flares out to wide opening. Decorative checkered band woven around knob, with small dot on top centre; done in dark purple and yellow. Body of hat has design of whalers hunting a large whale, that is attacking a smaller boat; done in dark purple, yellow, and green. Cedar bark band sewn into interior of hat.

Wolf mask, made of two planks with an adjoining nose piece, and four slats at the back; two on top and two on bottom. Slats form a triangular frame, with mask tapering towards front. Wolf face is painted on exterior of planks, using formline design elements. Nose is black, with a wide band along length of snout and brow; white crescents across brow. Additional band, with U-shapes and trigons, extends from long line of white bared teeth. Row of alternating red and black ovoids along the bottom edge. Eyes are white and black, inside a red ovoid; additional ovoids carved around eye. Semi-circular ears attached to top edge; divots carved in centres, and edges painted black. Short bundle of cedar tied onto nose piece; three bundles attached to top of frame, with cedar curving behind slats and underneath mask. Small feather inserted into top centre bundle. Top edges of mask are painted black; interior is undecorated. Artist signature, West Coast Wolf, and date made written inside of mask, towards back opening.

Boot-shaped wall-pocket, or pouch. The boot part is made of a double layer of birch bark, whip-stitched around the edges with thick black thread. There is an arched band attached at the top creating the pocket. Faded floral quillwork designs cover most of the front face and the band. Some quills dyed yellow and green, but most are off-white. (A few parts of the quillwork are missing.) The back is plain birch bark.

Birch bark booklet with quillwork. The cover has red maple leaf, angled row of white cross-hatching, and then in red "Veterans Guard of Canada" in quillwork. Inside birch bark pages are blank. The cover is edged with bent grass(?) and is whip-stitched with black cotton thread. There is a small adhesive sticker on the inside of the front cover, "F 3.00". The back is plain except four angled white quills, in two pairs.

Set of 6 matching miniature birch-bark chairs (parts a-f), another chair with a slightly different shape and pattern (part g) and a birch-bark corner shelf (part h); all decorated with floral designs in dyed quillwork. Parts a-f and h have similar floral designs on the chair backs and seats, in white, pink, yellow and green quillwork, with a simple cross pattern on the lower sides. The other chair, part g, has much finer floral patterns on five surfaces, embroidered using dyed grasses(?).