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Animal hide rolled and stitched with green thread with small flap of hide folded over at top. Quiver does not completely encase the ten ceremonial arrows it contains. Arrows have notched bamboo ends painted with red and blue bands or dots and the bamboo ends are fitted over blunt narrow wooden shafts and affixed with thread and glue. Some arrows have feathers bound to bamboo with thread.
One piece of bamboo with curved top end roughly shaped into an animal head with two long pointed ears extending to back and side. Head painted red with colour extending to first ring on shaft.
Mask roughly carved ovoid with dark brown painted surface. Painted facial features with spirals and flecks overall in a fluorescent paint. Eyes and mouth composed of horizontal pink line ringed by orange line with evenly spaced eyelash-like flecks of orange. Yellow concentric spirals on each cheek area and concentric spirals of green surrounded by pink on large chin area. Each spiral has some fleck design along outer edge, pink on chin and yellow on cheeks. Except for elongated squared nose descending from top of mask, facial features are not modelled. Yellow line with flecks extends down its length. Remaining mask area filled in with flecks of yellow, green, white, pink, and orange.
Mask of roughly carved ovoid in light coloured wood. Painted lines arranged in matching geometric design on cheek areas in green, orange, dark red and yellow. Circular holes for eyes are placed close together, ringed by orange line with flecks of yellow. Squared nose flares downward from brow. Horizontal slit for mouth is ringed by a green line with evenly spaced flecks of dark red. Large chin area has dots and lines in same pattern as design on cheeks. Green brows descend towards temples. Except for nose there is no modelling of facial features.
Painted dance mask with twig headdress and cedar bark fringe. Mask has a very bulbous black forehead with white painted ridge above and below curving eyebrow band. Eyes are close to nose with round hole outlined in white and enclosed by a black eye-shape. A blue contoured teardrop shape expands out on both sides surrounded by a white band. Large hooked nose with white tip and curving band dividing the black top from the red bottom and extending to corners of mouth. Very large triangular nostrils on underside of nose. Tip of nose meets large rounded chin. Deep-set mouth is slightly opening showing 2 rows of even white teeth. Red curving, contoured split u-shapes on cheeks. There is a lip around outside of mask, painted with large blue circles. The areas between are natural cedar. Three partially red painted fir boughs (without needles) are mounted into metal springs in the top of the mask, 2 with masking tape and one with leather. White ostrich feathers are attached by white thread at 5 places and around cedar bark tuff at top front. Tuff is braided to sides. Cedar bark fringe on top back is loosely tied together with white string dyed brown. The string end has passed through hole on side where leather thong is tied. Thong also ties on opposite side and at top, centre. Thong is looped at centre back. Bottom cedar bark fringe is attached to bottom of mask with string which is loosely tied across fringe in 2 rows. Cedar bark strands alternate between natural and red dyed. Inside of mask is partially covered with red sprayed paint.
Mask (a) with flat top that has four feathers (b-e) inserted into a circular drilled hole at the top centre and is painted white with black and red details. The narrow forehead has large straight black eyebrows. The mask also has small semi-circular eye holes, a hooked nose with rounded semi-circular nostrils, a pursed protruding open mouth, a pointed chin, three crescentic ridged lines from the sides of the nose to the upper side rims. Two curved ridged lines and one painted line extend from mouth to temple, and there is a solid jaw line along side rims from temple to chin. On the reverse, grey-green cord has been looped and knotted through double holes drilled at centre top and on each side rim. Inscription.
Deeply carved hawk mask. Widely spaced u-shaped ears with interior red split u, trefoil-shaped design on forehead between ears, black brows, deeply inset eye areas with circular hollow eyes, pointed hooked nose that touches the centre of upper lip, rounded semi-circular nostrils, two ridged u-forms on temples, semi-circular scallop-like design on cheeks, deeply inset area around protruding continuous lip band, pointed chin, and two nails at top of ears. On inside, two metal hooks are screwed in below the forehead, a twisted cord is looped through both and knotted, two other pieces of cord are looped and knotted around first cord, signed at upper side on right, "Hawk-Kwakiutl-Margaret Bay."
Northwest Coast style humanoid face mask, painted white. Wide flat forehead has five stitches in a vertical row at right of centre; beaten copper brows are nailed above bulging circular hollow copper eyes, slightly indented at base, in black pointed ridged eyelid lines; straight nose has indented semi-circular red nostrils; open mouth has protruding red lip bands; two stitches in a diagonal line between nose and upper lip; black bands with three rows of dots extend from lower corners of eyes, curve on cheek to terminate at side rim; nails in some holes along upper rim. On reverse, cord is looped and knotted through a hole in each side rim, second piece of cord is looped and knotted through a hole in centre upper rim and around the first cord. Piece of folded cloth nailed above eyes; two nails at left of nose. Stitches and nails are to repair crack; paint flaking; copper on eye and brow on left have green areas.
Human face mask with smooth front, straight nose in high relief extending from curved eyebrows, and oval eyes cut through. Triangular nostrils cut in nose from bottom. Mouth is hole created by two intersecting ovals. Remnant of dark painted lines, vertical wedge on chin, horizontal line on left cheek, eyebrows, and parted hair indicated across top and vertical series of dots on lighter section at centre of forehead. Carving marks on interior surface are overall fairly smooth. Small holes on sides and indentation on one side indicates that a string or cord was previously tied there. Screwed in metal eye hook at centre above eyes with a twisted multi-ply wire attached. 'J.C.' is written in white at one side.
Modeled clay figure of a coiled cobra. Head is raised. Figure is painted in yellow and black. A small piece of wire protrudes from mouth for the tongue.