Painting of an aid worker distributing supplies to people in a temporary settlement. The scene is of a temporary tent town of multi-coloured tents, two cars in the centre. In the foreground are several aid workers lifting packages out of boxes printed with “USAID”. Large crowd of recipients stands patiently in line to the right. In the background are children playing, trees in leaf, and grey rolling hills in front of a dark blue sky with light blue clouds.

Painting depicting a temporary camp of tents in a multitude of colours. People walk and work among them, including a camera crew in the foreground. A metal water tank sits in the centre of the camp with several people lining up to draw water from it. In the background are rolling orange and pink hills, several tall trees, and a blue sky with white clouds.

Painting of children playing on a path in a temporary settlement. Children play a variety of games in the forefront of the painting, including marbles, jump rope, and with a tire. They are surrounded by a temporary camp of tents in many colours. Tall green trees are seen in the rear against a blue sky with white clouds.

Forest scene at night with several groups of people surrounding a central tree. The upper group wear loin cloths and carry spears and swords. The bottom groups are mainly clothed in shirts, skirts and shorts, one carrying a drum, another a flag, yet another with a sacrificial pig in front of a fire. The central tree has bright yellow and orange leaves and a thick trunk, from which crawls a man. Two larger trees flank it, holding both dark and light green and leaves.

Painting of men attacking a castle defended by soldiers. Evening battle scene between men in blue, historically styled uniforms bearing spears and guns, and men in colourful long shirts and pants with similar weapons. The uniformed soldiers stand on a hill beside and in front of a grey castle flying flags among the crenellations. In the foreground stands the group in multicoloured shirts, in possession of cannons, several cannon balls flying. The space between the two groups is grey with smoke. In the distance is a dark blue sky with light blue clouds.

Painting depicting a tent treatment centre and medical operations. The scene is of a temporary outdoor cholera hospital made up of many small tents, metal sheds, and a large circular white tent in the centre of the image. People walk amongst the tents, many headed for the central structure called the “Centre Traitment Cholera". A Red Cross ambulance unloads a man and a crowd waits patiently. The majority of the people are smiling. In the background are several tall trees, shorter palm trees, a multitude of flowers, houses with people going about their daily activities, and a dark blue and purple sky.

Northwest Coast wooden house model with peaked roof; house frontal totem pole with circular entrance doorway in front. Interior empty / undecorated. Four carved killer whales formerly decorated the front roof line, though one has subsequently become detached. Painted designs in black and red on front and both sides, including killer whale motifs. Has been attributed as possibly Haida? No catalog number visible on artifact, which has also been checked with the blacklight. Object was loaned to Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, Mexico, in 1964; loan returned in 2012.Per Robin Wright, Burke Museum, 4-12-2012, this house model is probably Haida, though she is not sure who the artist might be. House frontal entrance pole is a Salmon with a human figure.A photo of what appears to be this house model on display at the Smithsonian circa 1879 (photo may actually date more specifically to 1882 - early 1885) is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives: Photo ID 2962 or MNH-2962, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder: 4, https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_8263 . House model is one of the small ones, second from left, on shelf in front of house front in back of photo. If this house model does date to this time period, James G. Swan would most likely be the collector. It also appears on the left in an old photo of exhibits at the U.S. National Museum (in what is now the National Museum of Natural History building), Negative # 38121B. It is behind glass and there are reflections, but the exhibit label appears to identify it as Haida and lists James G. Swan as the collector.In James G. Swan correspondence in accession record No. 5260, Swan talks about sending two Haida house models. However, only one was catalogued, # E23547. It is possible house model ET14554/ET24468 or house model ET24565 may be from this accession?

Cylindrical twined basket with concave base. Two horizontal bands of colored (black? brown?) "Z" and "S" designs. Woven, un-pigmented diamond patterns around rim and base. Rim heavily damaged and deformed.Typed note inside vessel says: "33. Basketry Vessel. Tribe: Tlingit - Southern Alaska. Design: forward and backward "Z" pattern and upward and downward arrows in two bands around body, and a latent natural on natural ground diamond pattern; basic construction material is spruce root, with false embroidery for decoration in maidenhair fern stems and dyed grasses; all natural materials (vegetal dyes). Size: 6 1/2"h. 8" dia. Circa: 1890. Condition: poor, but capable of being repaired."

Woven basket with some external vertical elements colored red, purple (?) blue/black (?) and green. Several areas of loss, particularly around the rim and rim is deformed.Typed note inside basket says: "24. Storage Basketry Container. Tribe: Nootka-Makah Vancouver Island, B.C. and Northwest Washington State. Design: red-green-blue-black-purple stripes woven on a natural ground; of plain plaited cedar bark. Size: 6 1/2 h." 13"x10" sq. Circa: 1915. Condition: v. poor."

Oval woven basket with lid. Basket body decorated with faded green (?) designs on natural ground, one on each side: two equilateral crosses with four arms bent at right angles (right-facing swastikas) are found opposite one another and two "Z" patterns opposite one another. On the lid, there are what appear to be two birds (?) (possibly hell-diver bird motif?) opposite one another in the same faded green (?).Note: The swastika is usually considered a non-traditional Northwest Coast basket design symbol. It was popular in the early 20th century in Europe and North America as a good luck symbol but disappeared from use after it became negatively viewed because of its association with the Nazi party.