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Three-dimensional wolf head pendant carved from yew on a leather chain. Pendant has inlaid abalone squares around outside edge, and ovals as eyes and inlaid pieces around outer ear edges. Features around lips, inner ears and negative space of pendant are painted red. Copper cut-outs used as eyebrows, sides of nose, tongue, inner ears and claws of front feet. There are also very small circles of copper inlaid between the abalone along the edge. A fine braided leather chain with a gold clasp is attached through a gold fixture on the back of the pendant. Back has seven small holes, six of which contain copper rivets; artist signature Reid-'77.
Short carved club made from fine-grained heavy wood. The club is surmounted by a bird, possibly an owl which has large round eyes and a down-turned mouth. The bird' s feet rest on the top of a tapering shaft which ends in a rounded pommel.; Good
Brown double reed whistle that is oval in cross section and bound in near the middle with yellow and green twine. While the wider end is solid, there are two hollows through the smaller end. A crescent hole is at either side near the opposite wider end with one hole being smaller and closer to the wider end while the other hole is larger and closer to the middle.
Ermine headdress attached to a wooden frontlet. Frontlet in painted in blue, red and black with a central figure of a humanoid face with protruding, hooked nose encircled by a red-lined ring of abalone. Two faces, one humanoid and mask-like, the other round and black with red lips, sit atop and below the main face. The eyes of all three faces are inlaid with abalone. The frontlet is attached to the front of a circular white fur cap, attached to a long train (90 cm) of white ermine pelts with brown tails sewn onto a length of white fabric backing. A vertical row of brown whiskers protrude from the cap directly behind the top of the frontlet.
Knife with light-coloured carved wooden handle (part a) and carved wooden sheath (part b). Both handle and sheath are decorated with oval-shaped sections of cross-hatching that are outlined with scroll designs. Sheath has grey and green coloured fibre wrapped around the opening that is threaded through a wooden loop at the side and connects to a wooden peg-like piece.
Sculptural installation in the form of two very large lahal sticks. Each is installed vertically, and rotates on a central axis. The 'male' stick (part a) has a wide copper band around its centre, with the Royal Proclamation of 1763 acid-etched into it. The 'female' stick (part b) has 5 copper inlay hands, each with a year acid-etched into it. Both have carved hands protruding from the main post - one pair of hands extend palm-up in the lower area; 8 fisted hands extend out, around the post, above the central area; one hand points downward from the upper area. Both sticks also have two colour-stained, wood veneer bands at each end, with inlaid abalone figures between them. The 'male' stick has 2 crown and 2 jester hat shapes between the top bands, and 2 trees and fish between the bottom bands. The 'female' stick has 2 trees and fish between its top bands, and 3 pairs of sticks between the bottom bands.