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Large bilum with an open weave. Bottom is rounded, as is opening. Handle is knotted at the top. Striped decorative pattern in red, yellow, brown and green.
Large bilum with an open weave. Bottom is rounded, and open at the top, with a thick handle. Bag has a pattern of narrow bands of black, red and grey-white as decoration across the surface.
Woven bilum with curved bottom and handle. Fibre surface is decorated with a geometric pattern in pink and purple. Bag is also decorated with seed and feather ornaments, attached with beaded ties, all over one side and the egdes. The woven handle has small cowrie shells wound around it.
Shaman's dance apron made of wool textile and decorated with puffin beaks and quillwork and/or woven plant material. [CAK 06/04/2010]
Caribou or elk hide blanket with quillwork in V-shapes, painted Chilkat designs and rows of fringe. [CAK 06/04/2010]
Globular shaped rattle with carved facial designs on opposing sides. A hair-like fringe of cedar bark is bunched and tied on with twine strung through holes at sides and top and yellowish rope is coiled around the handle.
Rectangular model village spirit house (haus tamburan) on 14 dark brown carved stilts has a basketry and clay mask with Cowrie shell eyes hanging at each end and a fringe of reddish grass along the bottom. Woven grass rope roof and walls with two small square openings in each are supported by an inner bamboo frame and floor boards. Wood house post finials carved in the shape of birds sit atop the roof peaks at each end; (b) stands upright with engraved markings on chest and light brown open wings while the darker (c) bends forward and looks down, scalloped wings with dark brown markings pointing upwards.
A small fabric doll with porcelain head, arms and legs, wearing a stiff gold top and wide flat skirt decorated with a string of beads.
Flat, square-shaped, light-coloured woven basket or bag with attached long grass fibre tassels. Made of a panel of basketry, folded in half and sewn along the opposite and bottom edges, it has long braided straps that are the continuation of several of the vertical strands at both top corners; the other vertical strands end in tiny knots that form a fringe along the top rim. Long strands of dark brown are interwoven to create two thick horizontal bands with a light design of opposing chevrons.