Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.

This skirt would be worn wrapped from back around the sides. The open front would then be covered by a fringed apron. This skirt shows signs of much wear. Most of the materials it is made from are from local sources with the exception of two copper discs, shaped and cut like the abalone. All the ornaments in addition to being aesthetically pleasing would make a sound as the woman moved in the dance. A small blue bead is fastened in the fringe.

This is a circular shell bracelet with carving of a frog on the valve of the shell. The head of the frog is on the shell while its back feet are in the air.

Large contemporary woven string bag (bilum) decorated with dyed stripes, different types of shells, chicken feathers, wooden beads, branches with seeds, small fan-shapes made of cut-up plastic packages, possum jaws, boar tusks and pieces of tapa cloth.

Chinook string of glass trade beads with seven native shell beads interspersed. String is made up of many types of trade beads 80-90% of which are blue.

The glass bead is blue and white.

The cedar bark is string.