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Large round coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with watch-spring base construction, and a foot of five coiled rows. Partially imbricated with horizontal bands of two red cherry bark ribbons with black crosses, and cat-tail grass (?) centres, alternating with vertical black cherry bark bands, in between. Bottom two rows, which include foot, are two ribbons of cat-tail grass (?) with red cherry bark crosses with cat-tail (?) centers, alternating with vertical red cherry bark bands. Foot is partially imbricated with red cherry bark crosses with cat-tail grass (?) center, alternating with vertical bands of red cherry bark.
Arrow with a double-barbed copper point that has two other barbs that point outwards perpendicular to the shaft of the arrow tip at the base of the arrow head shaft. The shaft is wrapped with cedar (?) at the arrow end. Plain cedar shaft with remains of feathers bound to shaft at butt end with off-white thread. Further down the shaft there is also a band of thin dark brown fibre wound around feather remains.
Cedar bark head ring with a carved frontlet of a sun figure in high relief. Frontlet has a broad white face, heavy black eyebrows, a green band painted across the eyes, and is encircled by a green ring; alternating squares of abalone shell and mirror are set into the green ring around the face. Cedar bark head ring is lined with cloth and features three large squares of abalone shell fastened to the outside at evenly spaced intervals.
Bentwood box (part a) and lid (part b) with one side pf lid raised. Box has abstract Northwest Coast design elements painted on all sides, in red and black. Cedar bark rope is tied around the box. Killer whale and sisiutl-like designs in black on the top of lid and the raised portion.
Ring-shaped frame of thin branches tied with strips of cloth. This frame is wrapped or bound with strips of red-dyed cedar bark.
Coiled cedar root basket with elongated watch-spring base construction and braided border. Decorated with beading and partial imbrication; four bands of diamond checkerboard figures (each with centre rectangle in a different colour from each of the outer rectangles). Red exterior with cat-tail and black centre or vice versa; they are mostly arranged so that they are diagonally similar except for top row. Colour: tan.
Open work basket with a rectangular base, soft sides, and a oval-shaped rim. Base is plaited. Cross-warp twined weave alternating with checker work. The weft of the checker work (excluding base) is black cedar bark. Braided rim. In the plaited areas the weft strand is dyed black, giving an alternating pattern of dyed and natural coloured stitches in a 1:1 ratio.
Round basker with a flat, circular base, flaring sides and a zigzagging black, red and white pattern around the sides. Simple interlocking coiled work (bifurcated stitches); watch-spring base construction looped and braided (double-coil) rim; partial imbrication.
Rectangular basket with simple interlocking coiled work, bifurcated stitches, parallel slat lid and base construction with graduated reinforcement stitches and 'twilled' effect on lid. Basket also has a two coiled handles and is decorated with beading. The lid has beading in black-dyed cherry bark in a 2:1 ratio along the circumference of the lid. The body has cat-tail grass at the top (one row per slat, in a 2:2 ratio). Three other slats have beaded decoration (3 rows per slat) in black and in red cherry bark in a 2:2 ratio creating a checkerboard pattern. Lid is attached to basket with thong hinges.
Tan basket of simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with parallel slat base construction and two strand loop work border. Basket is fully beaded in a horizontal, elongated chevron design which alternates in red cherry bark and cat-tail grass.