frame dia. 2 cm, cordage dia. 2 cm average; covered with lichen

Wooden portrait mask, with long dark hair. Front surface almost completely painted in red, green and black designs; mouth slightly open showing a row of operculum shell teeth; two curved copper bands nailed on as eyebrows; four cut feathers at the top of forehead, with the ends of the quills projecting down through holes to the inside of the mask. The inside of the mask is plain wood, with a horizontal wooden mouth piece attached. Edge of hair pieces inserted in a cut opening along the full length of each side.

Wooden portrait mask, with long dark brown hair. Front surface almost completely painted in red, green and black designs; mouth slightly open showing operculum shell teeth. The inside of the mask is plain wood, with a horizontal wooden mouth piece attached; metal hanging fixtures on back edge of sides. Hair inserted into evenly spaced round holes all along both sides.

Undecorated bentwood box with thick lid. Box, made of yellow cedar, is secured shut along the seam with four pegs; attached to a thin square base. Lid has a deep and wide lip, that protrudes out and completely covers the box opening. Base and lid both made of red cedar, and have rounded edges. Unsigned.

Large, kidney-shaped, hand-woven basket; cedar slat construction, wrapped with cedar root. Decorated with alternating stripes of imbrication in black and red cherry bark, and pale yellow grass. Small half-circle handles attached near top edge at each end. Fourteen vertical stripes around all sides of basket; each set consists of 2 bark, 2 grass, 3 bark, 2 grass, 2 bark. Sets alternate between black bark and grass, and red bark and grass. Remains of secondary handles at both corners of the indented side (small root remains in four holes at one end; holes are empty at other end.) Old repair runs along the top edge on the outer side.

'Ksan Doors: four large cedar panels that join in pairs. Panels (a-b) are wide, and panels (c-d) are narrow. Each panel is covered with carved figures and designs on both front and back, with an uncarved border around the edges. Panels (a-b) have representations of Wolf, Frog, and Fireweed clans on the front, and the Sun (clockwise from top), the Son of the Sun, the Grandmother, Skawah on the back of her husband, raven and bear on the back. The side panels (c-d) also have representations of Wolf, Frog and Fireweed on the front, and black bear, hawk and beaver on one, and Whale, Fireweed, Wolf and Frog on the other.

Traditional style harbour canoe. The designs painted on the outside are Thunderbird and Killer Whale, with a black background.

Bentwood box (part a) with red painted corners and lid (part b). The box is lashed and sewn together with root along the seam. There is a notch cutout of the centre of the front panel. The lid has a carved geometric design on the top painted with red details and red corners that line up with the red corners of the box. There is a small x-shaped cut centred along the edge on the underside. Price penciled on interior with small adhesive price label overtop.

Replica house front boards, painted in red and black; reconstruction of image from a Tsimshian house screen board in the MOA collection.

Replica house front boards, painted in red and black; reconstruction of images from a section of a Tsimshian house screen in the MOA collection. Image shows the pair of boards mounted together (DC5.1 and DC5.2).