Portrait mask. Mask is painted blue with large black eyebrows and black eye outlines. The eyes are carved out as circles; the nostrils are painted red; the mouth is slightly open and carved through with a rectangular opening, the lips are painted red. Below the lower lip is an inlay of abalone as the labret. On the back are four holes with a hide strap attached at each side. Artist’s inscription on back: RD 75.

Bentwood grease bowl, with curved sides and carved ends. On the front of the bowl a human figure appears from behind a bear’s head: head and arms above the bear’s eyebrows, feet emerging from under the bear’s mouth. The claws are represented on the opposite end of the bowl alongside another human figure with its face turned upward. Operculum shells are inlaid in the bear’s mouth as teeth. The surface has been coated in grease.

Walking stick (or cane) carved, with abalone inlay. The handle has been shaped in the form of an animal’s head with a small, crouching human emerging from its jaws. Inset abalone eyes. Wrapped around the shaft are low relief carvings of bird and sea-creature imagery on the upper section; the lower section is plain.

Carved argillite panel pipe with squares of abalone inlay. The pipe bowl is designed in the shape of a human head, facing straight forward. The figure's hands reaching back to the muzzle of a dog, standing inside the main part of the pipe. A duck-like bird is carved standing on the stem, facing the opposite direction, with its beak down. Tobacco leaves are carved along the stem sides; a patch-like pattern of squares cover the dog. The top and lower back edge of the upright section have had their drill holes closed off with small wooden plugs.

FROM THE LAND OF THE TOTEM POLES. JONAITIS, ALDONA, 1988

FROM THE LAND OF THE TOTEM POLES. JONAITIS, ALDONA, 1988