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Light brown woven hand basket featuring alternating horizontal bands of weaving and zigzagging open work. Horizontal bands of weaving have yellow and brown striped linear pattering. Two open work loop handles crown the basket.
Small cylindrical basket (a) with a flat lid (b). Lid and basket feature encircling bands of multicoloured linear patterning.
Two, small, rectangular shaped, coiled cedar root basket rim fragments (parts a-b). Foundations are visible, cedar wood slat is used for the distal portion and cedar root foundation is used for the overcast rim on the proximal portion of both. One piece (a) is longer than the other (b).
Wooden ornament in shape of a killer-whale fin with sea-bear's face painted at base. Cotton fringe attached to holes along the back edge. A face is carved on both sides, just above the base with painted red lips and nose, traces of blue-green paint around the face, and traces of black on eye brows. There are two rounded holes carved in the upper 'fin' area. Base of object carved down as if to fit in a slot. Two-ply thread as hair, possibly handmade cord of nettle fibre? Abalone shell inlay for eye and mouth.
Mask carved from one piece of wood in the shape of a human face. Pronounced brow ridges and cheekbones, nose and lips. Eyes have holes carved through the centres and are painted black around the holes. Brows are black. Lips, nose, forehead and ear areas are painted red.
Tall square bentwood box with lid (part b). The front and back are painted red and black in different distributive Northwest Coast style designs. The lid is slightly flared and painted black. The box has dark patina over the wood that has been scratched or worn off on the inside.
Round coiled cedar root basket (a) and lid (b). Base and walls have parallel slat construction, while lid has root splint foundation. Both basket and lid are decorated with imbrication in cherry bark and beading in white grass. The lid has a knob on it, which is beaded with red cherry bark.
Cedar bark basket (part a) and lid (part b) with white grass and black-dyed cedar bark accents. The square base of the basket and the top of the lid are woven with checker board plaiting. The plaited areas are outlined with double strand twining. The walls of the basket are plaited with a row of twining separating each row of plaiting from the next. The visible vertical elements are overlayed with grass and dyed bark in an alternating black and white pattern. Three horizontal rows are overlayed at the top of the basket also (black, white, black). The lid (part b) has a decorative edge that features a row of triple strand twining in black dyed cedar bark. It is followed by plaiting that is overlayed with the white grass. The lid has a dome-shaped appearance. The assembled basket resembles an acorn in shape.
Wooden mat creaser carved with two bird-like heads facing in opposite directions. Both surfaces are engraved with thunderbirds, dotted lines (rain?) and diamond shapes. An oblong opening has been carved into the centre of the piece to create a handle. The heads of the two birds are also decorated with incised lines, but different patterns. One has a series of criss-crossing diamond shapes enhanced with a white powdery substance and a circular eye, while the other has a slit-like eye and a diagonal slit on each side of its mouth. There are two incised thunderbirds on each side of the creaser, at the same end, for a total of four. They have dotted lines to represent their wing feathers and Xs on their tails, the ones in the middle of the creaser (beneath the opening) are upside down. Diamond shapes and dotted lines are likewise only represented at one end of the object, but on both sides.
Woven tumpline with wide band in middle. Coloured oblongs and braided tie at each end. Black, white and blue bands of pattern.