Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Gift of Mrs. Ferdinand C. Smith and Mr. L. Hawley Hoffman.

Gift of Mrs. Gordon Voorhies.

Gift of Mrs. Gordon Voorhies.

Gift of Mrs. Gordon Voorhies.

Gift of Miss Henrietta E. Failing.

Woven wool textile. Textile is rectangular in shape, with a tight, patterned weave. Decoration is dense, in a series of parallel lines of varying widths in tan, red, dark yellow and grey-purple. Motifs include birds, human figures, four legged animals and a variety of shapes and linear devices done mainly in light tan thread. A thin band of dark tan cotton is sewn to the long sides of the piece.

Woven string bag (bilum). The bag is rectangular, curved at the base and narrowing slightly toward mouth, where a thin handle is attached at top corners. The bag is brightly dyed in multiple colours, primarily blue, red, green and yellow, in horizontal strips of squared zigzag patterning on both front and back.

Mask made of carved wood, animal skin and cloth. The face is painted orange, and displays an open mouth, small nose with a curved bridge and flared nostrils, small eye holes bored through the wood and lined with fibres, wide fibre-covered brows, and large ears to the sides. A small tuft of hair is glued to the upper lip for a mustache and paper has been inserted into the mouth to create teeth behind the lower lip. The head is covered with a thick cotton fabric lined with burlap that covers the wearer’s head and neck. Large course stiches are incorporated, as well as a rope made of plant fibre and a piece of red and white cotton fabric. Parts b and c are pieces of hardened skin with long, light brown hair attached.