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Oval-shaped woven basket (a) with a flat, fitted lid (b). Figures in green around centre portion of basket. Lid: one line of purple along rim; centre oval is orange with green swirl surrounding. Base: plaited origin; plain twined (over wide warp strands). Sides: twisted twined work. Slightly indented flange on basket.
Five whale teeth tied to a leather thong. Broken in two pieces. One piece (part a) has two large teeth of similar size. The other piece (part b) has three teeth, two small and one medium in size.
Large wooden carving of the upper torso of a male angel, holding a bowl. Figure is round at its base (waist), dressed in a blue-grey robe, holding a black bowl with one hand. The other hand is raised, palm out, in benediction. A pair of wings (parts b,c) with the carved feather side painted grey and the other side white with grey painted feathering, attach to the back with pegs.
Part (a) Box is carved on all four sides. Both ends are framed in an incised rectangle, filled with horizontal carved lines, with the exception of three triangles on one side. One long side is only the carved lines. The other long side is plain except for one vertically incised line near one corner. Part (b) Lid has upraised edge on one side.
Carved wooden, oval shaped dish (łuk’wa) with centre concavity. Made from a single piece of wood, the bowl represents the upper body of a killer whale. One end has the whale’s head in red and black, carved in shallow relief with its mouth open. On the sides, below the mouth is the blowhole, cutout and outlined in red. Behind the hole are the side fins incised with horizontal lines. At the opposite end is a crouched male figure with his head facing upwards and its arms outstretched holding onto the back of the killer whale. The figure has black hair, a black belt and wrist bands. (Repaired with copper wire).
Part (a) Large flared round coiled cedar root basket with indented flange on basket body at narrow mouth, and fitted lid, part (b), with knob. Basket is partially imbricated with repeating diagonal in dark and red cherry bark, with grass in between. Overcast splint rim on lid, wide slat foot. Partially imbricated with curved diagonal bands in red cherry bark, grass, black cherry bark. Beaded row of red cherry bark and row of dark cherry bark towards knob, which also has row of each. Side of lid is beaded intermittently alternating between red and dark cherry bark. Bottom row of red cherry bark beading.
Wool, rectangular shaped mat with a dyed, central square and triangular geometric pattern in red and dark brown on grey background. The mat has a brown border along the top and bottom and a tied fringe at the corners. One fringe is missing.
A long rectangular cedar plank with faded Northwest Coast designs imprinted in the surface of the wood; black and red designs are barely perceptible.
Gourd shaped coiled rattle with separate handle (part b). Fully imbricated in alternating cat-tail grass and red cherry bark with black cherry bark design of vertical zig-zag. Handle has wooden base and woven covering, beaded in alternating rows of dark and red cherry bark. Metal pieces inserted to make sound.
Plain, long handle, short hexagonal blade that narrows slightly at tip.