Two piece costume consisting of a heavy wool hooded coat (a) and pants (b). Hood is checked design woven in pink and dark brown with fringes of purple and red and green. Body of jacket is a red and beige patterned wool embellished with many rows of fringe in purple, red and green, purple and gold and red, burgundy and white. The coat opens at the front and closes with four plastic buttons. Wool leggings have been sewn onto cropped green polyester/viscose trousers with button-up fly.

The wool cloth is dark purple. The button is silver and thread. The silk is dark purple.

The dye is white, yellow, purple, green, and brown. The wool is gray.

In the Spirit of the Ancestors-This is one of the few contemporary weavings made of mountain goat wool. The wool was gathered in the Olympic Mountains and colored with evergreen huckleberries, wolf moss, yellow cedar bark, and salal berries. Susan Pavel, was a student (and niece-in-law) of the late Skokomish leader, Subiyay - Bruce Miller, who founded the Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association.

In the Spirit of the Ancestors-Ravenstail weaving is an ancient weaving style that fell from use in the early 19th century after the more complex Chilkat technique was invented. The revival of Ravenstail weaving in the 1980s was led by Cheryl Samuel, a weaver who studied with Bill Holm at the Burke Museum. This robe was inspired by a piece in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in St. Petersburg, Russia.

In the Spirit of the Ancestors-This robe was worn by Haida artist Reg Davidson at a potlatch he hosted in Old Massett, B.C. in February 2002. The designs on the central panel are called tattoo designs, after a traditional pattern that was tattooed onto the backs of Tlingit noble women's hands. Davidson's robe was inspired by an old robe documented in a sketch made by Pavel Mikhailov on a voyage to the Northwest Coast in 1827.