Spirit of the Ancestors-This maskette takes the form of a Tlingit shaman's headdress. Many contemporary Northwest Coast artists draw inspiration from both old and new objects from tribal traditions other than their own.

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

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

The paint is red, black, and blue.

The paint is red and black.

Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund

Rattle carved in the shape of a bird, with black paint used to show the wings, feathers, eyes and beak of a loon. The rattle was carved in two pieces, top and bottom, which are tied together in three places with string. The holes in the fourth spot are missing the string. The rattle is hollow and makes noise when moved.

Headdress and carved wooden frontlet with an extensive ermine trailer. The frontlet’s main figure is an eagle with a small bear head and paws below and a wolf(?) head and paws above. The eagle has shell eyes and many abalone decorative inlays around it. Sea lion whiskers project upward from the top of the headdress. The entire upper head area is covered with eaglet skin with the fine down still attached. A long ermine trailer sewn on red cotton hangs below the headpiece. There is an abalone eagle crest attached on the left side.