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Two sided oblong coiled basket with foot. Watch spring base construction. Imbricated design of large dark cherry bark crosses, filled-in with bear grass except center. Three on each side. Foot is beaded with red and black cherry bark. Perforations along rim indicate basket may have had a double looped border.
Small totem pole with three figures. Topmost is a bear figure with a black body, green arms and legs, a red snout and eyes and red dots covering the body. The middle figure is wolf-like with a red body, black arms and legs and green dots covering the body. The bottom figure is a bird with a green head and body covered with black dots and red and black striped wings. The word "Esquimalt" is roughly carved across the lowest portion of the pole. The pole sits on a black and brown base.
Round basket with twined grass rim and flat bottom. Sides are wrapped twined, grass faced. Base is plain twined with central checker work. Design consists of two purple whales with two bands of purple at top and bottom.
Cylindrical basket (a) with a convex, fitted lid (b); lid is held in place by a cedar bark flange of looped warp strands attached around the upper rim of the basket. Design has geometric motif of twelve dark blue parallelograms around the middle with two bands of red and purple at bottom. Lid has a design of red and dark blue geometric motifs and a thin, wrapped handle of orange and green.
Round pika-uu (trinket) basket (part a) with wrapped twined grass sides; plain twined base with centre cedar bark checker work. Design around middle is dark blue and yellow geometric between narrow bands of dark blue and yellow. There are five narrow bands around top and bottom edges of basket; green, yellow, purple, yellow and green. Lid (part b) is convex, wrapped twined grass faced with cedar flange loops which fit into basket. A purple knob in centre is surrounded by a wide purple band and narrow bands of dark blue and yellow. Design in centre of lid is dark blue and yellow geometric between narrow bands of dark blue and yellow.
Cylindrical basket (a) with rounded sides and a fitted lid (b); lid has a central knob-like handle and is held in place by a cedar flange attached around the upper rim of the basket. Design consists of two purple bands at bottom and top with seven purple geometric designs around the middle. Design on lid consists of four sets of six narrow bands of purple, light red and yellow, as well as four sets of five narrow purple bands; three narrow purple bands surround knob.
Oval birch-bark basket or container with sides tapering to a square base. One piece of bark is folded and stitched at two ends with spruce root. The reinforced wood rim is lashed to body of basket with spruce root. Rim is decorated with red dyed spruce root wrapped six to eight times at centre of each side and green dyed spruce root at each of the four approximate corners. In between the dyed areas dark brown dyed spruce root which is interwoven with lashing creating a checkered effect. The walls of the basket are decorated by a horizontal scraped design, the design consists of six bands. Each band has a centre line bordered by two notched lines with the notches pointing away from each other. There are two pencil marks on the upper interior side wall.
Oblong, brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place, with a twig splint around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; decorative bands of dark crabapple bark (?) beading are featured along the rim in several spots. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.
Birch bark basket with an oval-shaped mouth and a rectangular base. One piece of birch bark folded up with spruce root stitching visible inside and out at four corners. Same design scraped on outside of basket on three sides--three central lines with four upward diagonal lines, three triangles on two middle lines. On fourth side design has a central floral motif with diagonal lines on either side and with attached triangles on two diagonals. Design on base is rectangular, lines with attached triangles in two panels. Stitched and lashed spruce root rim with some lashing dyed red-brown in centre of each of four sides. Rim decorated with beading on each corner.
Stout, green glass bottle covered with a twined white swamp grass sleeve (a); cork stopper with a twined cap (b). Checker work cedar bark base. Dyed swamp grass in bands as decoration: two bands of beading; whaling canoe, whale, and bird in blue.