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Wooden game piece stained red-brown. The stick is triangular in shape with a thicker top that tapers into a point. Carved into the top is a thunderbird in profile. The remainder of the piece has a carved scalloped edge on each side. There are two nails in the top of the stick, one just below the bird and another near the point that fasten it to a game board (A17073 a-b).
Dark brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a square-shaped bottom--bark is bent and laced together with birch root. Splint around rim is overcast and then partially beaded with crabapple bark (4-5 stitches every 1-1 1/4 in).
Fishing creel constructed of simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) with a rounded base that tapers slightly at the front and angles upwards towards the back across a trapezoidal lid with a trapezoid-shaped hole in the centre. The basket has a parallel coiled base and watch-spring lid construction. Overcast edges. Partial imbrication on lid with five checkerboard shapes with cat-tail grass interiors and cherry bark exteriors. Sides have five similar shapes with cat-tail grass exterior, dark or red cherry bark with different middle colour (crabapple?). Red leather straps with a metal buckle attached at reverse with leather thongs attaching the lid to the base and acting as a closure.
Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a square bottom. Birch bark is bent and laced into place. A twig splint around the rim is closely overcast for reinforcement, with several bands of crabapple (?) bark beaded in. Geometrical design is scratched on: two rows of scallops bordering chevron strip. Darker part of bark is to the outside. The overcasting is mainly thin strips of natural coloured root (?) with strips of black dyed root (five stitches wide) - two on ends and two on sides. Only the side portions of the natural root overcasting is beaded in a 1:1 ratio.
Brown birch bark basket with a circular top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place, with birch twine around the rim overcast with thin strips of root; decorative bands of crabapple beading are featured along the rim. Geometric and linear patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.
Brown birch bark basket with an oval-shaped top and a rectangular bottom. Bark is bent and laced into place with birch twine around the rim overcast with birch root and partially beaded with crabapple(?) bark. Geometric patterns are scratched onto the exterior sides, revealing a lighter shade of bark.
Large flared, rectangular coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with elongated watch-spring base construction. Upper half is imbricated in cat-tail grass (?) with designs including elongated bow-tie like shape, with diamond in center, outlined in black cherry bark and cat-tail grass (?). Corners have "flying goose" pattern in bands of red and dark cherry bark. Rim has intervals of red and dark cherry bark stitches. Lower portion of basket has double parallel rows of zig-zag in cat-tail grass (?). Rawhide front and back loops and handle.
Roughly oval-shaped basket with a flat bottom, flaring rim and linear designs around the side: five beaded rows in alternating crabapple and black cherry bark; overcast rim is also beaded in the same manner. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches) beading.
Roughly rectangular basket with flaring sides, rounded corners, and an extended, rounded shoulder punctuated by a large rectangular opening. Simple coiled work (bifurcated stitches): parallel base construction. Fully imbricated; series of connecting triangles (three on top, two on bottom) separated vertically by a ladder-like strip all in red on bullrush. Base is partially beaded in bullrush and red cherry.
Part (a) Rounded coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with narrow opening, and flanged lid, part (b). Watch-spring base construction. Beaded body, alternating every two rows between crabapple bark and cat-tail grass (?). Deer skin (?) handle tied near opening. Foot is beaded with crabapple. Lid, all but small center portion is imbricated in alternating cat-tail grass (?) and cherry bark.