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Cylindrical basket with slightly flaring walls. Base warps radiate from a central point. Base is decorated with band of three rows of light red strands. Walls are decorated with three bands: the top band consists of one row of dark brown, one row of light-red and light yellow-brown alternating, and one row of dark-brown and light brown alternating. The remaining two bands consist of yellow grass woven through light brown warp strands with row of dark brown, a row of light red and light yellow-brown alternating and a row of dark brown and light yellow-brown alternating above and below the yellow grass strand. Rim is folded over and secured with row of twining.
Large wooden ladle with a deep bowl and a cylindrical shaped handle carved in the form of a sea-lion. The bottom of the mouth attaches to the top of the spoon. The nose, eyes and mouth are carved, there is shallow engraving for side fins. The end of the handle consists of the back fins formed together in an oval-like shape. Painted black but there are traces of white and orange paint.
Feast dish representation of a seal carved from a single log with the body deeply hollowed to form the bowl. The seal's face has carved ovoid eyes and crescent-shaped nostrils. The body is decorated with horizontal adzing except above the forefeet where vertical adzing suggests legs. Adzed fluting surrounds the rim of the bowl. Between the hind feet is a smaller bowl at the end of which is a small carved face. There are supporting legs under the rear of the body. The seal has traces of black, red, white and green paint.
Circular twined basket. Base has warps radiating from a central point. Walls are decorated with five bands of light yellow-brown. Upper band consists of three rows of light yellow-brown stitches alternating with two rows of red-brown. The lower band consists of three rows of alternating light yellow-brown and red-brown stitches. Rim has warps folded over to the outer side and secured by one row of two ply twining.
Long, wooden feast dish carved in the shape of an animal, with a deep, oval shaped bowl in the middle. The tail is paddle shaped and curves downward to join the body; it’s legs are carved in relief against the body, the feet support the bowl. An abstract design is painted on the tail. The exterior rim of the dish is painted with a continuous pattern of alternating opposing pairs of white semicircles with inset green triangles. Both sides of the object are painted with a large human face with a downturned mouth - the face is outlined in blue on a white background. Has been badly broken, and repaired.
Woven, rectangular, handbasket with two arching handles. Main body of the basket is a dark brown on light brown checkerboard weave, with a striped band of pink and aubergine ringing the bottom and the top. Encircling the centre of the bag is a plain woven band with the image of a whale and two people in a canoe, repeated on opposite sides of the basket.
Small round basket. Circular base has warps radiating from a centre point with a spiral design. Base is demarcated from the walls by a row of stitching. Walls of wrapped twining have two decorative bands each consisting of seven rows: two yellow-brown, one green, one yellow-brown, one green, and two yellow-brown. Rim is finished in a braid-like weave.
Cylindrical twined basket (part a) with a lid (part b). Base (part a) is constructed of plain twining. Walls are twined and decorated with two bands, each band consisting of three rows of yellow-brown, three rows of alternating stitches of yellow-brown and red-brown, and three rows of yellow-brown. Rim has a braided appearance. Lid (part b) has a small knob and is decorated with alternating yellow-brown and red-brown stitches with a swirl effect and a band of solid yellow-brown.
Round twined basket with a square plaited base. Walls have twining going in two directions and are decorated with bands of dark red-brown stitches. Rim is finished with a row of three ply twining with alternating stitches: two stitches yellow-brown and one stitch red-brown with the warps cut off.
Flaring basketry cylinder that is open at both ends. Bottom rim has warps turned up and secured by a row of twining. Walls are decorated with five bands consisting of a row of red-brown twining, light yellow-brown plaiting, and red-brown twining. Ridge on the walls formed by these raised rows of stitching. Band above this consists of two rows of yellow-brown twining.