Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

Carved wooden spoon. The bowl is large and elongated, narrow, and with a tapering tip. The handle is straight, flat, and squared at the end, with a slightly rounded underside. The interior of the bowl is painted with a red and green stylized Northwest Coast design, while the handle and back of the spoon are undecorated.

Shadow puppet of a figure wearing an elaborate black, gold and red headdress. At the back of the headdress there is a red demon-like face. The black and gold elements of the headdress have scalloped edges and holes cut out of them to mimic fine metalwork. The figure’s face is in profile, facing right. He has a long black sideburn and a thin black mustache. His eyes and tongue are painted red. The figure’s skin is white. His chest is bare save for a large gold chest piece with red jewels that wraps around his neck and then extends down his torso to attach to the folds of his skirt. Around each of the figure’s upper arms and forearms, he wears gold bracelets and a gold ring on each hand. The upper arms, forearms and hands of the puppet are separate pieces of skin attached with small nails. The nails at his wrists also attach the puppet’s arms to wooden sticks, with movable joints in his arms. There is a stick attached to the front of the object and one attached to the back. The skirt is green, red, blue and gold with black stripes adorning them. The skirt wraps around his right thigh, lower than it does on his left leg. Yellow thread attaches a large dark brown stick to the middle of the puppet on the front and back side. The stick is pointed at the bottom end.

Retablo of St. Marcos. The altar is rectangular, topped by a painted pediment. Two long vertical doors open on the front, and are attached to the altar by leather hinges. The doors are painted on the outside with a cross and swirled patterns, and on the inside with flowers, leaves, circles and lines. Inside the altar are two sets of plaster figures. The top set consists of four saints: St. Paul, St. Ines, John the Baptist and an unidentified saint holding a book and staff. Smaller figures stand in front of the saints and include animals and humans. In the bottom set of figures are a group of musicians, several sheep and goats, shepherds, and a woman with pottery.

Ancestral male figure standing with a dragon? under his left foot and a pink and green creature under his right foot. Figure's right arm is raised above his head and his left hand rests on his bent left knee. Both hands are clenched with small holes in the centre, indicating they may have once held objects. Figure is wearing a tunic with a diamond pattern and a hat.

Male figure standing with left foot on a dragon? and right food on a tiger? Right arm is raised above head and left arm rests on bended left knee. Both hands are clenched in fists with small holes in centre, indicating they may have once held objects. Figure wears a colourful costume and an elaborately embellished headdress. Headdress has a pom-pom at the front, and two red wing-like appendages attached by wires. The dragon underneath his left foot is green and white and his tail extends around the figure and up to his shoulder. The tiger underneath his right foot is yellow and has large eyes and its tail extends around the figure up to his waist.

Ancestral male figure standing with left leg bent and resting on top of a dragon? and the other standing on top of a tiger? Figure has his right arm raised above his head and his left resting upon his bent knee. Both hands are clenched in fists with holes in the centre, indicating they may have once held something. Figure wears an elaborate costume of gold, red and green and a hat. He has painted facial features and a protruding nose. Both creatures he stands on are painted white with gold, green and red harnesses.

Ancestral male figure standing with right arm raised above head. Right hand has a hole in the centre, indicating it may have once held an object. The figure's left arm rests at its side. He wears a hat or crown with a point in the centre. Almost all of the paint is worn off the figure.

Shallow wooden tray. The object is made up of a base piece, two long narrow side pieces, and two shorter side pieces that flare outward to serve as handles. All are joined by nails. On the base is a line painting, black and red, in stylized Northwest Coast design of a bird with wings spread, surrounded by a variety of designs.