Long white sash divided into fourteen uneven, multi-coloured, woven sections. There are several design styles represented including the “mi-shar-ri chot” or mixed design, “o-si-chin gam-bu-ri chot” or sallow tree flower design, “bir-ra kum-ba chot” or male goat/markhor crossed horn design, “pati-chot” or woman’s waist band design “pati-chot/pon-du-i-ruk” or small circle design (which appears as diamond shaped) and “shin-guk chot” or goat horn design. There are fringes on either end of the sash which are light brown and multi-coloured wool. There is also a willow loop that encircles the sash for fastening.

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.

Round, tall, woven basket. From a wide mouth, the basket curves in at the neck, flares out again at the shoulder, then tapers slightly down to a rounded base. The bottom has an 8 point star-shaped design, and the body is circled with two prominent, dark, zigzagging lines surrounding standing human figures and four legged animals with long upright ears. Triangles and more four legged animals decorate the neck of the basket.

Finely woven, round plaque with “Man in the Maze” pattern. On a light yellow-brown background, a small human figure stands above the dark brown woven lines of a maze, representing the twists and turns of life as one makes his way toward the Sun God in the centre circle. The weave of the plaque is tight and even, and the image is present on both front and back.

Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Open rimmed birch bark basket, sewn at sides with pale yellow root strips and stitched around rim with pieces of reddish-brown bark underneath and woven into strips of pale yellow root. Decorative row of plant motif designs around two longest sides. Darker side of bark on outside, paler inside. Signed, dated on base.

Gift of Mrs. Otto Goepel

Basket with cone-shaped wooden frame and woven sides. Three two pronged willow branches form the conical frame, attached to a circular branch with thin pieces of hide. The sides are an open, twilled weave of black and white goat hair. There is a long strap attached to one side of the frame, also woven black and white goat hair.

Round basket of coils over twig construction. Two bands of red and black horizontally striped design.

Small rounded basket-like piece with a dark brown geometric design on a natural light yellow-brown background. Design consists of a central dark brown horizontal band that has outward pointing negative space triangles alternating at either inner side of the band with the upward pointing negative space triangles having a dark brown upward pointing triangle below the band while the downward pointing negative space triangles have a dark brown downward pointing triangle above the band. Rim has vertical beading.