Spirit of the Ancestors-Spectacular sea-monster masks are part of the Kwakwaka'wakw Tlasula ceremony. Masked dancers impersonating supernatural beings enter the big house in firelight, dramatizing an encounter and declaring the high status of the family presenting the dance. This sea monster can spout water through the float at the top of its head by the dancer blowing on a plastic hose and water container concealed inside the mask.

The paint is black and green.

The paint is black, red, turquoise, and brown.

The paint is brown, dark green, green, white, and red.

The dye is red. The paint is red, green, gold, white, and black. The fur is rabbit.

Rectangular brown birch bark basket with lid. Bark is cut, bent and laced together with reddish coloured root at the four corners. Twig splints around the rim of both lid and basket that are overcast with thin strips of root? and the lid also has interwoven long strands of black hair. Geometric and linear patterns of cross hatching and inverted triangles are scratched onto the exterior sides of the basket and top of the lid, revealing a lighter shade of bark. Lid has an arched handle-like strip of bark attached to the top centre with two X stitches of dark root.

Multi-media installation. The doll (a) consists of a wooden artist’s maquette body with brain-tanned deer hide head (no facial features), hand coverings, and dress (with fringes at sleeves and decorated with English and Cree text written in pink gel-pen ink), pink and yellow cut-glass seed beads sewn onto dress and moccasin boots, horse hair braids with white satin ribbon, ncecklace of porcupine quill, brass bead and sinew, clam shell earrings, and a belt with large brass buttons. The doll sits in a chair (part b) constructed of deer hide, wood, and sinew, and face a small LCD screen, which fastens to a wooden base (part c), and plays a video loop, with video and audio footage created by the artist.

The moccasins (part a-b) are brown and white with multicoloured beadwork on the tongue and around the heel. The sole and sides are made from the brown skin. The white skin is sewn on top of the brown over the heel area and reaching halfway down each side. The tongue is also made of white skin. There are thin pink and green piping separating the white tongue from the brown toe. The upper edge of the tongue is lined with purple beads. The beadwork on the tongue shows three spiral blue flowers outlined in red with two green leaves and a purple stem. The beadwork on the heel is also a floral pattern with red and blue spiral flowers, green leaves and purple branches.

Mask painted white with painted black hair and thick eyebrows as well as a moustache with curled ends. The nostrils and upper lip are painted red, and there is a red scalloped design at the sides of the face. The eyes are circular holes with an eye shape outlined in black, and there is cedar bark as well as black horse hair attached at the top of the head as well as horse hair attached below the nose and on the chin.

Echo mask. Mask has overhanging forehead that has a downward curve, sprigs of brown hair emerging from the top rear of the head, large ears at the sides of the head, a protruding angular brow and hooked nose, raised cheeks and a protruding chin. The mask is painted with light green patterns over dark green on the overhanging forehead, heavy black brows and sides of face, red ears, a black nose bridge with orange nostrils and lips, blue and orange protruding cheeks, a blue scalloped pattern on the sides of the jaw. The mask has eight interchangeable mouth pieces belonging to land creatures (a-h): a) mouthpiece with an open, orange beak-like mouth flanked by orange hands with green nails and a green and blue semicircular design on the back of each hand; b) mouthpiece with a hooked beak that is green with orange nostrils and edges and has a blue scalloped design covered in green lines at the edge; c) mouthpiece consisting of an elongated orange mouthwith a peak at the centre of both lips and a surrounding area of blue and green with green lines; d) mouthpiece consisting of a curved bill-like protrusion with holes in the sides and an open mouth recessed below the bill; e) mouthpiece consisting of a nose with tubular orange nostrils and a mouth with grey lips that are open to expose two rows of teeth, four in the front and six on each side; f) mouthpiece with protruding orange pursed lips and a surrounding area painted with orange, green and blue designs; g) mouthpiece consisting of a frog-like figure with black glass or plastic eyes, a green body, orange mouth and feet, and its legs joined at the sides; h) mouthpiece with recurved green nose, rounded red nostrils, blue and red cheeks with green crosses, a protruding lower lip, and an upper lip that is split in half by the end of the nose.