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The shape of this mask is triangular with two planes intersecting on the median of the face. The forehead is high and smooth. The forehead is overpainted by a thunderbird design in black and green with the bird's head on the mask's left side. The thunderbird has oval black eyes surrounded by a plain tapering oval and a green area, a cross shape in the ovoid nostril, and four green split u feathers. The black eyebrows of the mask are raised and extend from the nose to the back edge of the mask. The eyes are placed on the upper cheek plane, with no orb, under a projecting and sloping under-brow. The eye is shallowly engraved and its centre is a round hole. A black band is painted across the eyes with some unpainted patches showing through. The nose, from which the cheek planes slope, has black drawn-back hollow nostrils. Black and green split u thunderbird feather designs extend down the cheeks. Narrow black lips are pulled back and down showing twelve plain teeth. A ridge around the bottom of the mask, painted black in the middle, is the chin.
Carved, wood mask with a triangular shape coming to a point at the bridge of the nose. Bear fur spans the top of the mask and extends halfway down the back opening. The slightly raised, heavy eyebrows are painted black, extending from the back edges of the mask and meet at the upper nose. The eyes, set in a shallow recess on the plane of the upper cheek, are long and drawn out with a circular centre. The nose is long and narrow, with back thrust nostrils. Lips, painted red are rounded and drawn back, slightly parted. U-form designs on the forehead are painted green, blue and red; eyes are outlined in black with a red broken-line sunlight design above them; wave-like designs on the cheek are painted green and blue.
Stylized human figure with bear heads for arms and short widely spaced legs. Figure wears a parka with u-shaped hood on back above u-shaped parka tail. Parka is u-shaped at front. Head of figure has hair indicated by incised, somewhat irregular lines. Facial features include oval eyes, straight mouth and slightly raised straight nose. Bear heads taper to flat snouts with ears at top, oval eyes, and notched nostrils and straight mouth across snout. Head on left is wider across snout than the other. Carving marks are visible overall.
Torso, hooded head, and arms. Arm on left ends in mittened upraised hand, arm is bent at ninety degrees from elbow. Arm on right is down and slightly out from side. This hand is indistinct. Hood is wedge-shaped and the front plane is angled at forty-five degrees. The hood is rounded at top and extends high above face. Face is carved in fairly high relief with sunken close-set eyes in oval sockets, sharp triangular nose, and tongue sticking out from mouth above pointed chin. Carving marks show overall. Four syllabic characters and 4687, incised on base.
Standing stone figure wearing hooded parka with antler boots glued to legs and smaller figure in baby pouch on back, left side. Figure is leaning forward slightly with arm on right slightly extended out to side. Figure's hood is bulbous at top. Facial features include nearly oval eyes, triangular nose and straight mouth. Child has similar features and one arm is outside pouch. Two parallel u-shaped lines around bottom of pouch. Carving marks are visible on mottled stone. Some natural fissures or cracks and pits. Black patch on front.
Stylized sloping antler figure (part a) held by a peg onto leaf shaped bone platform (b). Figure is long and slender with head at one end, single front limb holds up figure from peg in platform. Inset baleen eyes in curved orbits, flares out at wide nose with drilled nostrils, deep mouth above curved chin. Dense white antler on top of head, porous grey antler at face and at thinner portions of figure. There are two limbs stretched out behind extended belly. Feet rest on leaf stem. Leaf platform is long, thin and tapers on both ends. The surface is uneven. Four characters are inscribed on bottom of platform.
Seated figure wearing a hooded parka. Large hood points to right. Indistinct facial features, arms form u-shape in front of figure, knee on left is bent up while right is on ground and both feet are together on left. Back has 2 u-shaped sections outlining back of parka and apron. S827-78 and several characters are incised on bottom.
Arrow consisting of a long cylindrical wooden shaft with one notched end and a metal point at the other, secured with wrapped sinew. The triangular point has a double notched base and a narrow stem. At the midpoint of the metal stem has an oval hole. String is tied around stem where stem enters the shaft. At opposite end of shaft are two strips of feather secured by wrapped sinew. Red pigment, possibly ochre, is present on the basal end. The basal end of the shaft is notched.
Dyed black stone carving of a crouching caribou being attacked by two wolves; one wolf bites the caribou's neck while perched atop its shoulders as the other wolf, caught underfoot, is bitten by the caribou in the head. Two large segments of antler protrude from the cariboiu's head. The entire sculpture is attached to a grey stone base.
Two mermaid-like ivory figures (b-c) are pegged to a flat, cross-section of antler (a). Both figures have fan-like tails, humanoid faces, crosshatched braids on back and small pectoral fins. B is lying out straight, while c has head turned and tail is on its edge.