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Open-weave basket with a tumpline fibre strap attached. The basket is rectangular, with a slightly rounded base, walls flaring gently outward toward a thick, wrapped rim. Short cords are attached at each corner to hold the tumpline strap, or handle, which is a braid of many thin cotton strands. At the centre of the wool strap, strips of cotton fabric in green, pink and other colours are tightly woven in, to create padding.
Abalone shell with exterior covered by basketry, conforming closely to its contours and secured over shell edges. Decorated with a dark blue rectangular ovoid at centre, two canoes and flying bird shapes in green or brown, and mouse-like animals in pinkish-red or brown arranged around central area. Around the edge are concentric stripes of yellow, red and brown.
Finely woven of spruce roots, this small child’s hat is painted with a split image of a whale encircling the crown and brim, its eyes facing the front, fins at the side, tail flukes at the back. Hat has a slightly concave top, with a red painted circle on it, and a wide brim. Woven with various twined weaves; the rim is braided; the inner headband is twill weave.
Small round spruce root basket (part a) with lid (part b). The basket is decorated with sets of equally spaced grey-brown parallelograms encircling the side, with alternating light and dark brown arrows at centre. There is a small raised woven knob in the centre of the lid.
Rattle basket. Small basket has a recessed base decorated with encircling lines of green, from which rises a short straight wall. Weave is fine, with two lines of imbricated designs either side of midpoint consisting of stepped lines in faded shades of tan. Interior has corresponding lines of dark blue-grey and red. Lid fits over mouth of basket and is concave at centre with a large, squat finial. Design is of encircling lines of triangles and rectangles in light tan and orange. Set inside lid under the finial is a chamber containing material that rattles (likely beads?). Encirclilng rings of blue-grey and red decorate the underside of the lid.
Cylindrical basket with painted Wasgo (sea wolf) imagery around the side in black with faded white, red and blue details. The upper border is elaborated with geometric designs created through a raised pattern of skip-stitch twining.
Small round spruce root basket (part a) with lid (part b). The basket is decorated with light-brown bands, a dark brown geometric pattern at centre. On outer rim and towards the edge of the lid is a light brown band with the same dark geometric pattern. Small raised, woven knob in the centre of the lid.
Woven and painted spruce root hat, with a painted flying frog design. The hat is conical in shape, with sides that flare at the brim. Dragonfly pattern weave. Three-strand twined crown, with no dividing line between crown and brim. The frog figures are painted in black and bright orange-red. The painted design covers the entire area between the top edge and the brim. The frog's face is at centre front, with the body splitting to cover each side and joining again at the back. There is a red line around the brim edge, as well as the upper edge. The crown is unpainted. There is a twilled inner headband. Davidson's initials and date are painted inside.
Three-sgil basketry hat. The hat is conical in shape, with slightly concave sides that flare out at the brim. Dragonfly pattern weave. Three stacked cylinders (sgil) sit at the top, with a two-strand twined crown. A headband is woven into the interior of the hat. The exterior is unpainted.
Basket sampler showing four sections of different types of basket weaving. Openwork basket is tall and rectangular, with a rounded base and walls that flare slightly toward rim. Large loops are attached at the upper layer, through which are passed two tumpline ropes that serve as a handle. A skinned ermine is sewn to the handle (with its nose and whiskers still present). Cedar oil was applied to the basketry after completion.