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Carved wooden figure of a standling male (no longer has arms); shallow carved facial features; nails used as eyes, carved as wearing a hat.
Flat, circular basket lid of simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with watch-spring construction and wire handle which is overcast in cedar root. Lid also has a flange. Decorated with partial imbrication, four "y" shapes--two in red cherry bark and cat-tail and two in black-dyed cherry bark and cat-tail. Imbricated designs are staggered around rim with stems facing the centre.
Brown wood rattle consisting of two rounded pieces put together, each with a semi-cylindrical handle, creating a full rounded oval rattle nailed together on the handle. Along either sides of each piece, there is a hole to bind the two pieces together with white string and cedar bark fringes. Pieces are also bound together at the top with white string and cedar bark fringe. On one side, there are pencil sketches of ovoid designs.
Frontlet featuring a large, three-dimensional bird's head with two smaller heads, one on top and another at the bottom. The bird and the lower face have mirror inlaid eyes. Upper head has abalone shell inlaid eyes. Abalone shell and mirror pieces decorate the border. Painted red, black, green and blue. A cap-like headpiece of red felt with a patterned white and grey top is attached to the back of the frontlet. Remnants of quills attached to the cap behind the frontlet are still visible.
Mask representing a frog with large bulbous eyes, a wide mouth with thick lips with painted crescent-shaped nostrils in red and white over the upper lip, and a movable jaw. There is a copper strip inside the mouth and the top and back of the head are adorned with a cedar bark fringe. Colours are red, green, white, and black.
Carved, wooden, raven headdress, or mask. Long beak with green, circular, cutout nostrils. The beak is hinged with wooden pegs. The beak is painted black with split U-forms, there is red edging and white detailing. There is a red stylized split U-form around the nostrils. The eyes are white, outlined in black on a green, ovoid shaped background; brow is black. Attached to the top of the head are short strips of cedar bark creating a fringe that sits on top and longer, twisted strips that hang down over the a piece of wood meant to hold the mask on to the wearer. There are a couple pieces of eagle down in the cedar. The inside of the mask is hollow with the exception of a rectangular piece of wood and an attached twine cord that assistants the beak in opening and shutting. The mask is painted black, red, green and white with Northwest Coast stylized designs.
Carved wooden, double headed Hamatsa mask consisting of crooked beak and raven mask joined at the back of each. Both have red, ovoid shaped cutout nostrils with red and white detailing around it. Both have a red mouth; one is long, narrow and protruding the other is flat, square shaped and protruding. On underside of crooked beak's lower jaw is a small carved thunderbird ? face with a beak that curves back into the open mouth; small bundles of cedar decorate the top edge of face. The eyes are black ovoids, outlined in white and red on a green ovoid shaped ground; the brow is black. The inside is hollow with the exception of twine which articulates the mask. Both masks have twisted cedar rope around the crown; crooked beak has cedar rope along the edge of the frill. Cedar bark and feathers decorate the top of both heads; tufts of eagle down intertwined. Attached to the top of the crooked beak are two black wooden horns that curl at the top; detailed with a red circle. The mask is painted black, red and white with Northwest Coast stylized forms.
Small wooden mask with two round eyes and a long, protruding, recurved beak-like nose; painted orange, black and yellow.
Fish hook made from one piece of iron, u-shaped with sharp point directed inward at an acute angle to one arm and a flaring outward turn toward the end of the opposite arm. The axis of the point and main shank is bound with twine. Remains of leader line attachment on opposite arm.
Two carved wooden arms lashed together in a "v" shape. Iron spike lashed at an acute angle to main arm. Shank of darker coloured wood is carved with a boat shape design in deep relief flanked by two figures (heads of creatures?). A hole is drilled through the shank and the leader line secured through this hole.