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Wooden, storage chest (parts a-b) with a brown wood frame bottom, metal side handles and a flat wood lie (part b). The box (part a) is painted on three sides with a white background and Northwest Coast stylized figures in black, green, grey and red. The front design depicts a front facing whale with its body split to either side, its dorsal fin on top and its tail fin at the bottom. The ends each have a whale in profile.
Part (a) is a long tear drop shaped plywood with three dimensional carved wood head attached centre front. Face has eyes outlined in red seeds, hook nose with open nostrils and long feather and fibre rope through wide indented mouth. Back board and head painted with geometric designs in brown, gold, white and black. White feathers double fringe attach to perimeter with twisted fibre band. Secondary face on board has wide smiling mouth. Attached black and white feather, red seed medallion top piece, back has support material of hat and ridge in wood. Four flat wood leaf shapes (b-e) with black and white zigzag markings, cut white feather surrounds them, attached at an angle to a stick bound with fibre and white feather down.
Bentwood chest with lid (part b). Painted distributive designs on all four sides, split symmetry on long sides. Heavy black formlines with red and black details. Complex designs on front and back; one short side has wide curving black bands with red outlined ovoids, split u's and a round eye shape; cross-hatched details. Other short side has wide curving black bands, a red circle shape to right, red split u's, ovoids and crosshatched details. Two drilled holes at top of each long side. Box lashed at one corner; metal patch nailed with square nails at top. Lid is thick and carved from a single piece of wood; rounded edges.
Human face with a moveable eagle head mounted on a pole and connected with canvas. Four moveable slats representing the feathers of the wings attach to back of mask. Yellow ties on back.
Bentwood box with painted designs in black and red; with a lid (part b) with edges that bevel inwards towards the base. The main decoration fills each of two opposite sides with a bilaterally symmetrical design. The other two sides each have a less elaborate abstract design formed by an ovoid with two u-forms centred on each panel, also in black and red. The side joint and bottom are nailed.
Figure representing an animal head with emphasized eye sockets, stylized eyes with eyelids, an elongated snout with a ridge along the top, protruding domed nostrils with a hole at the centre of each, lips emphasized by a recessed line, and bared teeth with four fang-like teeth at the front that taper to a point at the bottom of each. The figure is painted black with red nostrils and teeth.
Carved wooden, oval shaped dish (łuk’wa) with centre concavity. Made from a single piece of wood, the bowl represents the upper body of a killer whale. One end has the whale’s head in red and black, carved in shallow relief with its mouth open. On the sides, below the mouth is the blowhole, cutout and outlined in red. Behind the hole are the side fins incised with horizontal lines. At the opposite end is a crouched male figure with his head facing upwards and its arms outstretched holding onto the back of the killer whale. The figure has black hair, a black belt and wrist bands. (Repaired with copper wire).
Gray animal mask with fabric over metal and wood frame. The animal has striped horns, cone-shaped ears, sculpted eyes and protruding snout with open nostrils and mouth. The details, (such as striped horns, beige eyes, red mouth) are added with paint. The inside is unpainted.
Wooden wolf headdress with small bundles of branches tied to the top and long fabric ties hanging from the inside. The mask is rectangular in shape with a slight tapering at the snout; face is depicted on the sides. The nostril, teeth and top head form are cutout with stylized lines. The mask is painted in red, white, black and green with stylized forms. The inside has two rectangular pieces of wood that hold the box shaped mask together. The bottom section is lined with a thin and worn piece of fabric.
Representation of a sun mask. Painted three-dimensional carved bird/human head in white with black eyebrows, circle around eye, red nostrils and scalloped row across cheeks. Mounted on a flat round backboard, also painted white, with four painted rays in black, two with oval shapes and two with U-shape elements in green, and oval in red. Four ray-like projections at each corner, with round red ends. Metal wire and eye hooks on back.