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Totem pole model from bottom to top: block of wood with designs on sides, man holding frog, bear holding killer whale, thunderbird, pole is inserted in the block base. Dorsal fin of whale and wings bird are inserted. Lateral fin of whale nailed. Colours are black, red, and green. Signed on back.
Long shallow model canoe. The canoe is carved from a reddish-brown wood and the exterior has been lacquered. A hole has been drilled through the bow and the stern. The bow and stern are identical.
A double-sided metal piece shaped like an hourglass, however, with a longer cylindrical stem in between. The ends are slightly rounded. Black with dark pink-red nail polish designs consisting of zig zag lines, lines, and dots.
Long wooden staff, cylindrical in shape with a short metal piece attached at the end. Carved into the body are many totemic figures intertwined: Tsonokwa, octopus ?, killer whale, sculpin and others. Staff has traces of red pigment.
Small carved wooden pole depicting figures from top to bottom: hawk, human, eagle, whale, wolf and killer whale. Painted black, green and red with Northwest Coast designs. Underside is slightly rounded.
Ladle carved from one piece of wood with an elongated bowl, a cylindrical handle, and a finial at the top of the handle carved in the form of a humanoid face. The spoon is painted with a design in red, green, and black with a red and green border, and the underside is painted red, blue and black over low-relief carving. The handle shaft is painted black , and the head is painted with red, black and green hair, black eyebrows, a red and black design on the forehead, red nostrils and lips, black over the cheeks, and green on the rest of the face.
Miniature canoe carved out of cedar wood with wolf's head finial on one end. Six unfinished cross-bars support the canoe, which is painted red on the inside with darker red on the inner and top of the gunwale, dark green on the outside with a band of lighter green on the outer gunwale, and white at the ends.
Talking stick, or speaker's staff, with upper lacquered section decorated with totemic figures, and the lower tapering cylindrical portion painted dark green. There is a brass sheath on the tip with a rounded brass point emerging from the centre bottom of the staff.
Wooden, carved figure of a human and a wolf ? The human is in a crouched position with legs drawn up and arms under breast; animal on back, holding man's cheeks with front paws and legs drawn up over body. The human is wearing a headdress; the wolf is bearing its teeth. Traces of black and red paint. There is a hole drilled through the human's body.
Carved canoe paddle. Elaborate design painted in red and black on the blade, on both sides. Entire paddle heavily shellacked.