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Club carved in the shape of a halibut with hole in tail, two eyes on top, nostrils, mouth and gills. Smooth on top surface, rough on bottom. Series of six rows of two gill-like shapes on bottom; seven notches on each side.
Dagger with long, tapered, metal blade attached to a bone(?) handle. Body of handle wound with skin strips. Top of handle carved like into a bear head with abalone insets. Butt of handle appears to be whale bone.
Carved trap stick. One end tapered. Carved shark's head with teeth showing and red bead eyes at other end.
Carved trap stick. One end is tapered. Other end has a carved raven with sun in mouth. Skin strip wrapped around middle of stick.
Twined rope with a whale tooth attached where the ends meet. Tooth is held to rope with some grass through a hole in the tooth and a metal loop around one end of the rope.
A small figure standing with its hands together as if in prayer. The figure is carved with a face and a headdress, a necklace, and wings.
Long light-brown coloured wooden dowel that fits tightly into corresponding holes in white-coloured bone pieces at each end. At one end, the bone piece is large, round in shape, and flares up slightly at its edges. The other bone piece is smaller, with two narrow pieces that flare inward towards the dowel.
Carved tupilaq (tupilak). Standing human-like creature with a pointed head, 2 black eyes, mouth slightly open, upper and lower teeth, leaning on a face similar to its own topped by an animal head.
Ivory coloured carving of a human torso, starting from the shoulders upward. Has a well defined face with deep-set eyes, a sloped nose, and a closed mouth that is slightly frowning. C-shaped carved ears are on either side of the face and are at the same level as the eyes. The figure has short hair above the ears defined by hatching on the head and has the appearance of being male. The underside of the object has a small brown hollow opening at the centre.
Off-white whalebone base (part a) with 15 carved grey soapstone animals (parts b-p) that stand on top, with yellow-white coloured pegs that fit into holes on the base. Part b is a bear, part c is a narwhale, part d is a dog or wolf, part e is a sealion, part f is a caribou, part g is a rabbit, part h is a seal, part i is a seal, part j is a bird, part k is a whale, part l is a fish, part m is a bird, part n is a wolf, part o is a bird, and part p is a muskox. Parts q and r are carved bone antlers from the caribou (part f).