Miniature wooden paddle painted with formline designs. [CAK 05/08/2009]

Beaded knife sheath (part a) with carved wooden knife inside (part b). The front sheath panel of beaded fabric with a scalloped edge (lined at the back with a burgundy fabric), decorated with yellow and blue crosses and diagonal lines, is sewn to a skin panel with fringe down one side. Coils made of strings of beads wrapped around strips of fabric are at top and bottom; the top is a handle of white and blue, the bottom a long tail in yellow and blue with a red wool fabric tassel.

A cedar mask carved by George Pennier called Mother Earth Looking at the Universe.. The mask has heavy black eyebrows, pierced eyes rimmed with black and red, red nostrils and an open red lipped mouth. The majority of the face is painted with white and blue, representing the sky and stars. The upper rim of the mask has a row of white goose feathers. The inside of the mask is smoothed, and signed by the artist. The mask was carved by a Coast Salish artist, George Pennier, a resident of Chilliwack, B.C. The style of the mask is Northern rather than Coast Salish, attributed to the fact some artists carve in styles that are not necessarily their own tribal group. The mask is an expression of the artist' s own place within the universe, and was inspired by looking out at the night sky in Chilliwack. Carved in a traditional style the subject matter is very personal, concerning identity and the place of the individual within the world. The mask also references the concern for the environment, Mother Earth exhibited by many First Nations artists, and is an aspect of a Pan-Indian culture which is becoming more prevalent in North America. The mask was bought directly from the artist. Excellent

A moon frontlet carved in cedar in a Tsimshian style.

Large Haida totem pole carved with crest figures. The pole has an eagle with a damaged beak sitting on top of the potlatch rings of a skil property hat. The rings rest between the ears of an eagle with a projecting beak. On the eagle' s chest is a smaller bird, possibly a young eagle with outstretched wings which overlap the bigger bird' s wings. The curled feet of the bird rest on the head of a thunderbird which has its beak close against its body. In turn the thunderbird rests on a killerwhale with whom it is often associated in myths and on totem poles. The blowhole of the killerwhale is clearly visible together with its dorsal fins. Along the body of the killerwhale are more skil hat potlatch rings, below is a small humanoid face possibly that of the strongman who battled with killerwhales in myth. The set of hands round the rings are possibly those of the killerwhale indicating transformation, more likely though they belong to the strongman. The last figure is a beaver with a chewing stick and cross-hatched tail. The pole is C-shaped in cross- section, having been hollowed-out to lessen the weight and enable it to be raised. The catalogue card records the figures as representing, from the bottom upwards, a beaver, a supernatural being, the only woman' s crest on the pole. Then comes a man used to fill space. Then a cormorant, also crest of man. Then an eagle showing that man belonged to that clan. The three figures on the top of the main pole represent watchmen looking for enemy visitors. Bird on top , an owl. Bushnell added to the catalogue card that alot of the data detailing the representations on the totem pole was clearly wrong and referred to Marius Barbeau' s Totem Poles page 122 as evidence. The confusion over the description could have arisen because it belongs to a pole which CUMAA was going to purchase but instead was sold to a museum in Milwaukee (G.Crowther).; Good

A bundle of thick cedar bark rope.; Good

A large hafted stone maul with carved stone head one end and the other is flat. The carved side is a frog with protruding lips, eyes and nostrils. The rough wooden handle is carved into a broad T-shaped end fitting into a flat depression in the lower surface of the head to which it is lashed by fibre thongs.; Good

A fine paddle with oar-shaped blade painted with a design composed of eye-ovoids and U-forms with cross- hatching. The designs on the two sides of the blade are different. The design is possibly a bird but it is highly abstract.; Good

Rattle carved and painted in the shape of a killerwhale. The dorsal fin projects from the back of the killerwhale as a spike.; Good