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Carved model canoe with ten wooden paddles. The canoe is long and narrow with twelve wooden dividers and eleven benches inside. The ends of the canoe are raised; the pieces were made separately and attached to the canoe. The stern ends in a triangle with one added piece. The bow ends in tiny overhanging triangle with two added pieces. The inside of the canoe is blue with unpainted benches and dividers. The outside of the canoe is white and red. On both sides the name "Mermaid" and "Galiano B.C." are painted. The paddles are painted red, white and blue (parts b-k).
Standing female figure. Features are carved. Has tapering oval inlaid eyes, a nose, a closed red mouth, and a white line around the face that goes around above the eyes and angles downward near either cheek side. Hair is white in a grooved and upraised square pattern. Body is black. Armbands around the biceps consist of seventeen white bands below the wider red wood band. Belt is cream-coloured with red along the top. Ear ornaments are circular white hoops that have a black ridge around the middle. Anklets and bracelets are in white and red. Wood necklace is carved with five red bands and three white 'beaded' sections . Also has a deep pink-red beaded necklace with wiring. Has galvanized iron handle at the back.
Standing male figure (part a) with arms bent upward at the waist. Has tapering oval inlaid eyes, a nose, a closed mouth, and a white line around the face that goes around above the eyes and angles downward near either cheek side. Hair is white in a grooved and upraised lozenge pattern. Body is black. Fibre bands are wrapped around the biceps that consist of eight horizontal white bands below the wider red wood band around the upper portion that has a vertical zigzag pattern. Large necklace around the neck consists of a white circular loop with three rectangular pendants below, the left one of which has white, red, and blue beads and red fibre coiled around the top. Wears a white waist belt and leg bands just below the knees. Left hand holds a shield (part b) and right hand holds an axe (part c). The shield is made of light yellow wood that is pointed at both ends and painted with a black design at either end. The smaller end has a face(?) with oval grey eyes surrounded by three emanating horizontal black lines with a long nose that extends downward into a w-shaped mouth. The larger end has a horizontal black band that has nine plain boxes within and from which, a black line that is interrupted by a square hole and that extends downward toward the tip end along the centre into a w-shape. Fibre is attached at the back of the shield. The wooden axe has a slighty convex, curving red-brown shaft that tapers to a point and has a black arched blade at the other end with an upward pointing triangular feature just above the handle end.
Chipped blade set in wood which is set in a cane shaft. Geometric designs outlined with string and accented with small discs (seeds or bones). Obsidian blade is a triangle in cross section and is flat along one edge while curving inward to create a point along the other edge. From the base of the point, the design is as follows: white diamond shapes surrounded by red; and three sets of four small discs along sets of red or white diamond shapes surrounded by black.
Chipped obsidian blade set into wood and attached to a cane shaft. Geometric decoration, outlined with string and accented with inset beads. Obsidian blade is triangular in cross section and comes to a point. From the base of the point, the design is as follows: red, white, and black triangles; a red pyramid carved with a downward pointing white leaf point on all four sides; and four sets of four seeds around red, white, and black trapezoids.
Model totem pole with five figures. The figures represented, from the base upwards, are a man, the face of a mythical being, a lizard, a seated man, and an eagle. The eagle's face and breast are white, his body and wings are green. The wings are also accented with red. The seated man is brown with details added in black. The lizard is green with red dots on a piece of black spotted wood. The mythical being is red with facial details in black. The man at the base of the totem pole is brown with details added in black. The base is a thick tiered square, painted brown and attached to the totem pole.
Bone barbs set onto three prongs. The end of the shaft is plain and wrapped with white string and has a coiled wire loop with a nail bent through it. Near to this, the shaft is painted red and then becomes dark brown-black where it is wrapped with fibre at the base which is also painted red. The base of each of the three prongs is plain and then has a section painted red. Each bone barb is wrapped with fibre under which, there is a tiny barb.
Long hardwood point set into softwood shaft. The shaft is painted in sections of white, red, and black from bottom to top and appears to have had some coiling around the lower white area. The end of the shaft has a bit of coiling fibre. The base of the shaft is wrapped with fibre. The long dark red-brown point is plain.
Chipped blade set into wood, then into cane shaft. Binding is decorated with black, red, and white triangles outlined with string and accented with white seeds. Obsidian blade is rectangular and angles along the edge to create a point at one side end. From the base of the point, the design is as follows: red, white, and black triangles and diamond shapes; and six seeds, one at either end and in between each white diamond shape surrounded by red.
Painted hollow wood drum covered with skin held in place by two ringed bands of flower patterned fabric. From the larger cylindrical upper portion, the drum has a smaller ringed section and an outward and downward flaring base. The upper portion from top to bottom has the following: a horizontal band of upward pointing red triangles; a horizontal, rounded, yellow band; a horizontal wood 'fringe' of carved yellow and red semi-circles; a horizontal yellow band of vertical grooves; a horizontal, rounded, green band; and a horizontal wood 'fringe' of carved yellow and red semi-circles. The smaller ringed section has a central horizontal, rounded, red band with a horizontal wood 'fringe' of carved green semi-circles at either end surrounded by a horizontal red zig zag-like band and a horizontal wood 'fringe' of carved yellow semi-circles along the border at either end. At either end of this central design of the smaller ringed section, there is a horizontal, rounded, red band with a horizontal wood 'fringe' of carved yellow semi-circles along the border at either end. Painted green in the plain bands in between these designs of the smaller ringed section. The base has downward pointing red triangles; a green band; a horizontal yellow band of vertical grooves; a horizontal wood 'fringe' of carved red semi-circles; and a plain horizontal, rounded band.