Terracotta tripod vessel with rattle legs. Round clay bowl with a deep body, wide mouth, a slightly flaring rim and rounded bottom. The three legs supporting the bowl are hollow, each in the shape of an animal head with prominent horned brows, oblong holes for eyes on the sides of the head, and a long snout with open mouth, chin to the bottom. A hole is bored into each leg on the interior side. When the vessel is moved, a soft rattling sound emanates from the legs and an irregularly shaped ball can be seen inside each. Faded pigment colours portions of the legs, the outside of the bowl, and the interior with an encircling ring at rim and midpoint.

Clay ocarina, circular with a rounded base. A thin coil of clay winds around the sides of the object to the top, where it makes an vertical and slightly pointed protrusion with a bored necklace hole and a small oblong hole (a windway) bored vertically. Below this is a large semi-circular opening (the windcutter) bored into the hollow centre of the instrument. There is a pitch hole to the side of the protrusion and one on the bottom. The ocarina is decorated with black and orange pigment.

Clay ocarina in a V shape, joined by a thin neck of clay at top. One side is topped by two small round protrusions, with two holes beneath bored into the hollow chamber of the instrument. Two more holes are bored at the bottom of the V, and a fifth at the top of the second arm. The ocarina is decorated with incised patterns of lines.

Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund

Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

Carved wooden spoon. The bowl is large and elongated, narrow, and with a tapering tip. The handle is straight, flat, and squared at the end, with a slightly rounded underside. The interior of the bowl is painted with a red and green stylized Northwest Coast design, while the handle and back of the spoon are undecorated.

Large rectangular tapa cloth. The base colour of the cloth is stained a medium brown, with unpainted strips of light brown on either end. The cloth is painted with a dark brown, possibly oil based, pigment in squares with repeating patterns of birds, animals, outdoors scenes with a house, tree, sun, moon and star, a Tongan shield motif, and a central panel with triangles, lines, and lettering. At each end is a light brown strip with a bird and number in each square; 18 to 21 at one end, 19 to 22 at the other end.

Painted ceramic plaque in high relief. Depicts Santiago de Compostela (Saint James of Compostela) on a horse killing three men. Santiago de Compostela has long, dark hair, a hat and shaped mustache. In his left hand he carries a sword in an upraised position; in his right there is a round shield. The men that he is attacking carry round shields with the same motif as his shield. One victim, on the right, is below the horse’s back hooves; another is positioned below the horse’s front hooves with the top of his head facing the left side of the image. The third victim stands on the left side of the image, and his face appears to have been slashed and his feet are bare. Throughout the background of the plaque there are stars formed by 8 bisecting lines. In the top right corner there is an indecipherable image, oval in shape with a pointed bottom. There is also an indecipherable object slightly left of the second victim’s head. There is a thin line which forms a border around the edges of the plaque. The back of the plaque is painted red-brown. (Twentieth century.)