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Fire starter kit. Pieces a-c range from 7.6 to 12.7 cm in diameter. Two pieces (a-b) are iron pyrite, each in a caribou skin bag. Part c is a piece of copper. Part d is a skin bag of moss (for tinder).
Pair of boots made of sealskin and the throat of a sea mammal (possibly walrus). The feet are made of dark brown dehaired skin. The front and sides of the uppers are made of yellow-brown dehaired skin and the back is made of the yellow-grey thin throat of a sea mammal (walrus?). The uppers are relatively wide compared to the narrow fitted feet and are pleated at the bottom were they are sewn onto the foot section.
Part (a) Large rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with coiled handles and lid, part (b). Parallel base and lid construction, reinforced by cross-stitches along end edges. Fully imbricated with cat-tail grass (?) and horizontal design of three bands, two cherry bark and middle one dark cherry bark, which dip into a large 'v' on all sides. Coiled handles over rawhide on each short side. Flanged lid with coiled handle at center is imbricated along rim in red cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?), and fully beaded in alternating rows of red and dark cherry bark separated by two rows of cat-tail grass (?).
Seventy-nine wooden gambling sticks (parts b-bbbb) in a deer hide bag (part a). The sticks are cylindrical in shape and are of uniform size; each has red and/or black line markings in centre. A few have an old white adhesive tag attached. Nine pieces are inlaid with abalone shells of different designs; one is missing its inlay. The inside of the bag has remnants of an old red and black Northwest Coast design. The strap of the bag has a carved bone(?) window-shaped ornament attached.
Hour-glass shaped drum with round skin top and bottom strung together with brown fibre(?). Red, black, and natural wood stripes around the body.
Flaring, vase-shaped hand drum with a clay stand and a glazed snakeskin head bound with rattan. Bands of wavy designs are combed into the stand around the top and bottom.
Percussion instrument. Skin stretched over a turned, dark brown wooden base. The round base has a hollow, upward flaring, shape. Discs of shim brass at edges, to create more sounds. Skin is edged with tape and nailed.
Wide head band of horizontal rows of swamp grass neatly twined. Additional bundle of swamp grass twined to the outside. Two rosettes and one tassel of hide strips attached around the outside.
Two pieces (parts a-b) of a cylindrical shape filled with wood while the outside is glued with hide around the centre.
Drum (a) and drumstick (b). Hide stretched over a circular wooden frame with four lengths of wire meeting at the centre back, bound with cloth. Stick has cloth covered head; handle is wrapped with leather and cord.