Man’s seal skin boots made of several pieces of fur in different shades, creating stripes at front and top. Pieces are sewn together with sinew. The top reaches to the knee, with fur to the outside, hide on the inside. A thin rope of sinew is threaded through holes in the top cuff, allowing the boot to be tightened around the leg. The foot of the boot has hide to the outside and fur on the interior.

Octagonal drum with deer hide stretched over a wooden frame and secured at the back with sinew. The face of the drum has a splash pattern at the centre in black ink. The hide is translucent along one half of the drum. The sinew, threaded through the edges of the hide, is pulled to the centre like spokes. A piece of elastic black string has been tied to two of the sinew spokes, for hanging.

Octagonal drum with hide stretched over a wooden frame and secured with sinew. The sinew is threaded through the edges of the hide at the back and pulled to the centre. There is an abstract, black, paint splash pattern at the centre of the drum surrounded by many small spots of black. A black elastic string is tied to two of the sinew lines at the back.

Wooden drumstick with a heavily beaded handle, with a white fur tip. The shaft is decorated with tightly packed rows of small clear plastic beads, with the base of the handle covered in rawhide, wrapped with sinew. The top half of the fur tip has been darkened with black ink. There is a circular metal loop screwed into the end of the handle.

The paint is black, red, blue, and white.

'Spirit of the Ancestors' - This apron is the only contemporary Chilkat style weaving in the Burke's collection, and was woven by the only male Native weaver known to use this technique. Many believe that Tsimshian women originated this complex technique of weaving in the late 18th or early 19th centuries. This apron depicts a Raven with its wings outstretched.