The cedar root is yellow cedar. The grass is dye, purple, and green.

The cedar root is yellow cedar, grass, dye, and purple.

Globular shaped rattle with carved facial designs on opposing sides. A hair-like fringe of cedar bark is bunched and tied on with twine strung through holes at sides and top and yellowish rope is coiled around the handle.

TANGIBLE VISIONS. WARDWELL, ALLEN, 1996 FROM THE LAND OF THE TOTEM POLES. JONAITIS, ALDONA, 1988

Two halves (parts a and b) of a longitudinal, bottle-shaped, brown wood piece that is circular in cross section with a tapering neck. Bound together near the base with bark (part c).

Small rectangular cedar root basket. Imbrication all the way around the sides is of a light coloured grass, with red and dark brown cherry bark creating a pattern of double diamonds, bordered with vertical bands in red and dark brown. Green thread is stitched around basket near rim.

Rectangular basket with lid (part b). Cedar slat and root construction. Decoration is four horizontal bands of light coloured grass, and large diamond patterns of red and brown bark are woven into the four sides, with red and brown rectangles decorating the lid. Handle straps consist of two off-white strips of hide, spliced at each end, looped through the bark weave of each long sides and knotted.

Spirit of the Ancestors-Spectacular sea-monster masks are part of the Kwakwaka'wakw Tlasula ceremony. Masked dancers impersonating supernatural beings enter the big house in firelight, dramatizing an encounter and declaring the high status of the family presenting the dance. This sea monster can spout water through the float at the top of its head by the dancer blowing on a plastic hose and water container concealed inside the mask.