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Wooden northern style canoe with a Haida design painted on the outside. The canoe is painted black with Northwest Coast stylized designs on the ends in red, white and black. Depicted on each side is a Killer whale with its head and dorsal fin on the prow and the body and tailfins on the stern. There is a red border around the upper edges. The ends sweep upwards. The prow is grooved to hold a harpoon or mast and has a vertical fin to cut through waves. The interior is also painted black and has three rectangular bench seats.
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.
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.
Carved, wooden feast dish in the shape of a crouching wolf with its back hollowed out to make a long, deep bowl. Black and white painted ovoid denotes shoulder joint. The eyes, nose and teeth are carved and painted black and white. The paws are carved and act as support to the bowl. Sides are finely adzed in horizontal lines, while the interior is more boldly hollowed out to form a huge dish. There are two square holes on the head, probably for the attachment of ears. The bright paint appears to have been added later as there are older, very faded, images along the side of the dish.
Large, wooden feast dish carved in the form of two matching, slightly-reclined Dzunuk'wa figures. They face each other with their hands clutching their bent legs; deeply hollowed centre. Thick black lines, painted over a grey background outline the anatomical forms. Mask-like faces are nailed onto hollow heads. Protruding ears are attached separately. Their lips are pursed and protrude, red eyes are recessed, large black defined eyebrows and high cheekbones are carved into faces.
Carved wooden dish shaped like a canoe, with two carved and painted human figures crouched inside, facing one another. The canoe is painted black with a wide white band that has a repeating pattern of red u-forms in between green and white ovoids; ends of the canoe have a green tail-like design. Both of the figures are painted black with white faces, a green band across the eyes, red nostril and black facial hair. On top of their heads are three strips of beaver(?) fur. Inside of the canoe is painted red.
Large rectangular bentwood dish with an undulating rim and painted designs in black and red, on sides and ends. Wide red band around rim is faded. The dish has three kerfed corners and is pegged together with 7 nails at the fourth corner. The base is pegged to the sides with nails.
Rectangular carrying basket and lid (part b), and handles. Slat base construction with split cedar root sewn around it, in coiled technique. Basket has red cherry bark and light-coloured grass imbrication of a downward pointing arrow design on all four sides, two on each long side and one at each short end. Beading in red cherry bark on the foot of the basket. Lid top and sides are beaded with red cherry bark and an outward pointing arrow at either side of the top.
Coiled cedar root basket with flaring cylindrical shape. Has single, coil loop at the base of the basket and double interlocked coil at the rim. Slat foundation base as well as slat coil foundation for the body of the basket. Beading in red and black cherry bark and light coloured grass.