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Long, red-brown leather sheath with two long fringes attached near the top and at the bottom. The main body of the sheath is stamped with geometric and linear patterning. Strips of leather are decoratively braided near the top and at the bottom tip of the sheath. Nine ring-like white metal rivets fasten the top of the sheath. Three leather loops are attached at the back of the top rim.
Ankle-high reindeer fur boots with up-turned toes and multicoloured ties. Uppers and soles are made of brown fur, with red woolen trim around the toe and sides. Around each foot opening is a brown skin casing with a black, red and white braided tie. On the ends of the ties are large black, red and white tassels.
A woman's wrap-around skirt that is a rectangle of multi-coloured hand-woven wool textile. Finished on all sides with braided red yarn. Panels of vertical stripes at each end. Solid black or very dark brown panel in the centre. Horizontal stripes at top and bottom. Red and black predominating. Top and bottom are interchangeable. Stiff and heavy.
A saddlebag constructed from a long continuous length of off-white striped wool canvas, which is folded and seamed onto itself at each end to form a pair of bags of equal size (panniers). The fronts of both bags, as well as the “bridge” that separates the two bags, are decorated with large rectangular panels of very finely knotted pile weaving that is worked on the canvas. The piece is tightly woven and quite stiff. The design motifs on the pile woven sections is consisting of octagonal and other geometric forms with shades of red, and brown predominating. The outside edges of the saddle bag are bound with braided brown goat or camel hair and the opening of each bag is finished with dense loops of braided goat or camel hair. There are colourful tassels at the corners and on the back of one bag, a length of brown cotton twill tape is attached.
Doll representing a female figure carved out of wood with articulated shoulders and ankles. The doll's face and hands are painted white, with eyes and eyebrows painted in black and the mouth painted in pink. The doll's hair is painted in black on the crown of her head with a braid hanging down her back and adhered to the back of her head. A strip of blue-green silk is braided into the hair, and the braid is tied at the top with a ribbon of burgundy silk. She wears a pink skirt with a white cotton waistband with long ties, tied in a single-loop bow at the front over two pairs of white under trousers with a back slit, the outer pair of which is voluminous. Above this she wears a short greenish-yellow jacket with burgundy outer neck facing and wristbands, and narrower white neck facing. This is tied with burgundy ribbons in a single-loop bow. She wears shoes with pointed, upturned toes painted pink with a black linear and loop design, and socks of white ramie.
Doll figure carved out of wood with articulated shoulders and ankles. The face and hands are painted white, with the eyes and eyebrows painted in black, and the mouth painted in pink. The hair is painted black on the crown of the head with a braid of stiff black hair attached to the back of the head. The hair is braided with a strip of blue-green silk, and the braid is tied at the top with a band of burgundy silk doubled over so that there are no raw edges. The figure is dressed in a pink long-sleeved silk robe with a white neckband, over which is a long gored blue silk vest fastened with a single round glass button and secured with a burgundy silk cord at underarm height. The figure wears pink shoes with black ornamentation, white leg wrappers, and long white underpants with a white loincloth, above which is a short white under-jacket.
Hat made of thirty-one black feathers attached to string by folding the base of the quill and creating a loop for the string. The folded portion is wrapped with yellow and purple yarn. String of feathers fits over crown of hat (Ni32 a).
Long, narrow, tight-weave bag; open end has many cords that together form handle; cords are braided near rim of bag and then unravel into fringe.
Woven basket with spruce root warp and weft and dyed spruce root. Plain twining with braided rim and twisted twining reinforcement where base joins basket. Upper and lower band of brown with a brown killer whale woven in between the bands.
Oolichan net; 7 meter long fishing net, made from twisted commericial cotton cords. Knotted strands throughout form diamond-shaped openings. The mouth has a thick cotton rope looped through all the cord ends; the opening is 4.2 meters wide lying flat (doubled); the rope extends by an extra 64 cm loop beyond the netting at one side, and 67 cm at the other side. The net gradually narrows along its length, and changes over the last section to a thinner knotted cotton fibre, with smaller diamond-shaped openings. The last section extends for 2.6 meters and has been attached to the larger section with a thin black twisted fibre cord. The narrow end is open, and is approx. 50 cm wide. The net has been repaired using black or green twisted cotton cordage in several small areas.