A ceramic representation of a woman spinning cotton. The female figure is holding a wooden stick with a piece of unprocessed wool on the end. She is wearing a light yellow hat with a black band, a yellow cape with vertical dark purple stripes, a light yellow short-sleeved shirt with designs in black and purple, and a purple-brown skirt. She has bare feet and red bands around her wrists. The figure's light brown hair is tied back with a broad band of light yellow with light brown horizontal stripes.

HAIDA DANCE FOR TOTEMS TO TURQUOISE (AMNH, NEW YORK, NY, USA, 2004)

HAIDA DANCE FOR TOTEMS TO TURQUOISE (AMNH, NEW YORK, NY, USA, 2004)

painted on both drum surfaces with "St. Mary's , Mission City, BC" and "St. Mary's Indian School, Mission, BC"

Gift of Appleton Sturgis

Museum Collection Fund

Painted, wooden figure of Christ on the Cross with the Sacred Heart of Christ at his feet and painted cherub faces at each end of the horizontal bar of the cross.

A polychrome figure (bulto) of Saint Joseph set on a thick wooden base in a frontal pose with one foot in front of the other. He is dressed in a black short-sleeve robe with a red V-neck collar. A yellow cape with a step-shaped border is draped diagonally over the figure's torso. The skin has a yellow pallor and the eyes are painted white with large black pupils. Three floral motifs are painted on the front of the base. Smaller three-pronged motifs embellish the top surface. There is overall gesso and paint loss on the piece and fabric can be seen under the gesso on the back and sides of the base and cape. The entire left forearm has been broken and is missing.

Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

This Kachina possibly represents Hetsululu. This Kachina was so poor he did not have any jewelry, clothes, or moccasins so Hemokatsiki-the grandmother of all Kachinas - rolled some clay into a nice shape and put it on top of his mask. He was then painted in stripes of all the colors used by the Kachinas so he would represent the world. Sometimes he appears barefooted but this doll has been dressed in an additional manner with the high boots. Hetsululu was sent to the village to play a game with the villagers with clay balls. He is considered friendly and now may appear with the mixed dances carrying a bucket of clay balls. Everyone believes that his clay increases rapidly so when he throws clay balls from his bucket they catch them and put them with their corn or bread so that they may also increase.