Model totem pole on a circular red base depicting a crouching brown bear, with killer whale and spotted eagle at top. Eagle has outstretched wings attached with nails. Colours used are black, red, green, brown, gold and greyish white.

Dzoonokwa, one of the best known mythical personages in Kwakwaka'wakw art, is usually represented as a female. She is a giantess of great strength and awesome appearance. Her characteristic features are large size, dark hairy body, hanging breasts, and a great head with heavy brow, arched nose, sunken cheeks and eyesockets, and lips pushed foward and rounded to produce her fearsome cry, "Oooooh!" (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

Sidney Gerber purchased this owl mask from Willie Seaweed shortly after it had been photographed, worn by Joe Seaweed, in the film Dances of the Kwakiutl (Orbit Films 1951). As seen on the museum wall the round bulging eyes set in flaring blue-green sockets and the fierce hooked beak dramatically express the character of the nocturnal bird of prey. When it is worn in the dance, the bird gains life. The mask is bold in its conception and execution. Made perhaps fifty years ago by George Walkus of Smith Inlet, it represents the artist's style at its most expressive. The painting in black, red, green, and white follows the carved features and elaborates the cheeks in typical Kwakiutl fashion. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

Carved and painted model pole with a halibut as the base. The figures above the halibut are: crab, octopus, bear holding a seal, killer whale with a seal in its mouth, and eagle. The halibut base is grey with black circle-in-circle eyes, a sideways mouth, black dashes on the side fin, black dashes along the top and the bottom and at the tail. The crab is red with circle-in-circle black eyes and its legs curled under. The octopus has black circle-in-circle eyes surrounded by a tapering red oval and a green area that connects across the bridge of the nose with black brows and black on top of the head; it also has a black outlined open red beak showing a plain tongue. The bear holding a seal has a black body, black circle-in-tapering-oval eyes surrounded by a green area with black brows above, red and green u form ears, green nostrils, an open mouth showing twenty-six plain teeth. The seal has a black body with black circle-in-circle eyes, red nostrils, and an open mouth showing eight plain teeth. The seal has a side fin and a tail, and curves to the left side. The killer whale with the seal in its mouth has a black body with black circle-in-circle eyes, a green nose with red nostrils, and an open mouth showing nineteen plain teeth. The killer whale has side fins and a dorsal fin with a frontal face and red u form within a larger black one that has a red ovoid within at the top. The seal is black with rounded eyes and nostrils and a curving body facing to the left side. The eagle at the top has oval black eyes surrounded by a green area with black brows above and a red lined beak. The outstretched side wings have four feathers with red u forms within larger black ones.

Mask (a) with a protruding rim around the sides and top, furrowed brows, raised eyes and cheeks, a hooked nose with flared nostrils, crescent-shaped protrusions to the sides of the mouth, and a protruding chin. A fringe of long hemp fibre is attached at the top. The mask is painted with alternating black and white scallop shapes around the rim, a white forehead with black eyebrows, green around the eyes and on the nose, red nostrils and lips, a black and white design on the cheeks, and on the protruding crescent shapes beside the mouth, green around the mouth, and brown on the chin as well as around the face. The mask has five mouthpiece attachments: b) wide mouth with open red lips exposing two rows of natural wood teeth; c) wide, open, and protruding mouth with red lips and a black base; d) an orange beak with red nostrils and edges; e) a black muzzle with red nostrils and lips, and natural wood teeth; f) a black beak with red nostrils and edges. Each mouthpiece has a protruding piece at the reverse that fits into the slot of the mask's mouth.

Model totem pole depicting a bear holding a seal, with killer whale and eagle at top. Eagle has outstretched wings. Colours used are black, red and grey.

Sneezer mask. Wooden mask with a hooked nose, slightly protruding eyes and eyebrows, and a mouth with a movable lower jaw. The mask is painted with black eyebrows, red nostrils and lips, and red lines emphasizing the cheekbones. There is brown around the eyes and a scalloped brown design to the sides of the mouth. The chin is also brown, and the remainder of the face is painted white. A cedar bark fringe hangs from the top of the head, short on the sides, and extends below the bottom of the mask.

A model wood canoe with the sides painted black.

Mask with recessed eye sockets, and hooked recurved nose. Crescent shape slits are carved on both sides of cheeks. Two ears protrude from top of head. Colours used are black, red, white and green.