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Cedar bentwood box (part a) with a lid (part b). All four sides made from a single cedar board, steamed and bent into three right angle corners. The open seam is nailed together. A separate cedar board is nailed on to make a bottom. Lid is constructed of a cedar board with one side of having an upturned flaring edge.
Large wooden mask-like shaped lid carved in the form of Dzunuk'wa (Tsonoqua). She has large open mouth and eyes, pursed lips, shallow cheeks and carved nose. Painted red around the eyes and the mouth; face painted black.
Whale mask, or headdress, with moveable dorsal fin, pectoral fins, tail and lower jaw. At the base of the dorsal fin is an eagle with outstretched wings. The bird is attached to rigging for movement. By the blow hole there is a carved face of Bak'was. Under the lower jaw of the whale is a face, and on the pectoral fins are protruding hands in dark and light green. The tail shaft is segmented. The tail fins have a painted ovoid design underneath and a facial design on top. The body is painted black with white lines and circles. The fins are painted with designs in red, green, black and white. The face is painted black with black eyebrows outlines in white, green around the eyes with incised white lines, white below the eye sockets, black and red nostrils with white rims, and red lips with Bak'was painted in white, black, green and red. The bird is painted white and black with red legs and eyes, a white beak with red edges, and its wings are black with white stripes on the underside and white with black and red dots of paint on the top side. Some of the original painting can be found inside the side fins.
Carved thunderbird headdress with a pronounced beak, recessed eye sockets and a horn on the mask's right side that has a curled tip. Carved tail panel attaches to top of head, and wing panels attach to the sides. The left side panel and horn were replaced using cedar. Painted in green, yellow, black, red and white.
Coiled cedar root tray with handles. Simple interlocking coiled work with parallel slat base with two rows of watch-spring construction at the edge. Wide slat for the side with an extra row separating into handles. Braided edge under the handle and partial imbrication. Inside of the tray is decorated with six geometric patterns, two large diamond patterns in red and black, with a smaller black diamond inside. Exterior of basket has a series of diamonds and wide beading. .
Square coiled basket (bifurcated stitches); watch-spring base construction. Imbricated design of double vertical panels on each side, in red cherry bark background with cat-tail grass (?) chevron patterns and triangles, and dark cherry bark background with cat-tail grass (?) in same pattern configuration. Same on all sides, except two sides have two stitches of dark cherry bark at tip of one chevron in the red cherry bark background.
Large flared rectangular coiled cedar root burden basket. Parallel splint base construction. Upper half fully imbricated in grass with designs of 'c' shapes in mirror image, in dark cherry bark double outline. Dark cherry bark double stitches at intervals around the rim. Few remains of imbricated design on lower portion in double zig-zag outline in grass, with top and bottom points flattened.
Round coiled cedar root tray with handles. Simple interlocking coiled work (bifurcated stitches) on splint foundation with slat foundation sides. Separated handles, three strand flat braided border, and imbricated interior and exterior. The interior surface is decorated with a radial pattern that consists of blocks of red and black cherry bark which radiate out from the centre in eight rows (forming three concentric horizontal rows). "V" forms around the edge. Sides scattered beading in thick strips of red and black. The exterior surface has beading that alternates in red and black.
Round tray with two handles; simple interlocking coiled work (bifurcated stitches), watch-spring base construction, and sides with slat foundation. Separated handles and overcast rim with flat braiding under the handles. Partial imbrication on the interior base only. Design is a four-pointed star pattern of black (exterior) and red (interior) cherry bark. There are also four chevron figures in black and red in parallel position to the star.
Box with convex sides and a rim that curves downwards on the sides and upwards on the ends. The box is painted with an abstract design on all four sides in red and black representing two (?) figures in profile.