Intaglio print on white paper. The central, round artwork is a line drawing showing a brown, front-facing, seated bear, toes together, knees raised, holding a large green frog with stylized features, its back to the viewer. The snouts of the two are in contact. The background is a pale yellow.

Silkscreen print on white paper. Central round artwork depicts the profile of a large white and grey bird in flight, black and grey wing pointed down and emerging slightly below the circle of the image. A human face in profile can be seen in the top line of the wing. The bird flies in a blue sky over the white ridged, black mountainous outcropping of Black Tusk, in British Columbia’s Coast Mountain Range.

Beaded headband. Red, square-headed beaded figures embellished with grey, orange and green details are joined on a white background. In the centre is a line and diamond pattern in dark blue and orange. The border is dark blue and yellow. Part b is a round beaded medallion with a white background, red and green bead edging, and a red and green circular centre portion. The beads are sewn onto a felt backing.

Beaded belt is completely covered in small glass beads on the front, with a light blue background and regular patterns of triangles, diamonds and lines in dark blue, red and pink interspersed across the surface. The back of the belt is raw leather. At each end of the belt are two ties used to connect it around the waist.

Stone pipe with a wooden stem (part a), long and rectangular, with rounded, narrowing tenon, and lip with bore. The tenon fits into the mortise on the shank. Pipe head (part b) is made of red catlinite stone and is undecorated. Shank is long, closed at distal end. From its middle protrudes the cylindrical bowl with chamber.

Beaded cow horn club. The head is made of two cow horns with the tips pointing outward from the centre. A piece of checked fabric in yellow, white and dark purple is wrapped around the centre where the horns join. Furred hide is wrapped around the fabric, and white feathers are attached at top. The handle is covered in small glass beads of white, black, dark blue and orange. Two strips of hide hang from the bottom of the handle and join at their distal ends, edged in green and orange beads, with transparent beads decorating the centre. At the bottom is a finely cut leather tassel.

Gift of Meredith and Robert Amon.

Gift of Meredith and Robert Amon.

Gift of the Native American Art Council.

The grizzly bear is one of the important crest animals of the Kwagiutl. Masks such as this one were worn in the Tlasula ceremony, which dramatizes the original acquisition of a crest animal by the ancestors of the Kwagiutl. This mask, with its rather blocky carving style, has been attributed to Charley George, Sr., a carver from the community of Blunden Harbor.