Cantonese Opera costume chest made of wood and metal. The outer wooden surface is painted red; the inside wood is stained dark brown. The centre of the front panel has a painted white circle with the number 12 above it. The lid, front latch and side handles are metal, as are all the corner/edge supports and lashing rings etc. The front base has a horizontal wooden board with two square holes in it (likely for carrying poles). The back is missing its corresponding board. Inside is a metal ring with a wide bright orange ribbon tied to it. Interior wooden supports (one at each side) near the top suggest a missing shelf or drawer.

Orca whale; made for donor's wife Amy Gillette.

Pair of sisiutl cross-beams from a Kwagu'l house frame. See records A50039 a, b-c and d-e for the rest of the house frame.

Pair of thunderbird house posts from a Kwagu'l house frame. See records A50039 a, b-c and f-g for the rest of the house frame.

Pair of sea-lion house posts from a Kwagu'l house frame. See records A50039 a, d-e, f-g for the rest of the house frame.

House frontal pole with arched doorway from a Kwagu'l house frame. See records A50039 b-c, d-e and f-g for the rest of the house frame.

Tall pole with carved and painted figures. Figures from top to bottom are: the harpooner, with a whale's dorsal fin in each hand; the second-ranked man in the whaling crew, who holds a harpoon; the shaman, who wears a frontlet and holds a rattle and a wand (and on his tongue is painted the head of a lightning serpent); Puk-ubs (whaler returned from drowing); and a grey whale, held up by Puk-ubs. The eyes and teeth on the shaman's face are in bronze. (The tip of the harpoon was replaced in 2024.)

The catalogue card states A totem post bearing on the face, four deeply carved emblems picked out in red green and black paints. At the base a human figure with uplifted hands, above it a fish (?whale) head downwards, a human mask and a frog. In a letter from Glaisher to von Hugel he notes the figures are the woman, a whale, a chief, and a frog (CUMAA Archive 1, Letters Box 1907). The pole is very roughly and crudely carved.; Good

A) Carved and painted wooden totem pole depicting an eagle, a killer whale and a frog. The pole is painted in red, green, yellow, and black. While the format of the pole is characteristic the style is not typical of the Northwest coast. However the bottom creature is reminiscent of Westcoast style masks (G.Crowther). B) Robust carved and painted wooden totem pole. The pole bears a killer whale and a bird, painted in black, red, green, blue and white. The style of carving is reminiscent of the Westcoast or Nootka (G.Crowther).; Good