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Long, brown wood piece shaped like a long blunt sword with short blunt spurs on both sides of the end. Simple geometric design carving emphasized with white pigment at the end with the short blunt spurs. A ridge goes down the middle of each side. Near the handle end, there are two circular upward flaring cross-guard-like features that go around.
The end is spatula-shaped and the shaft has an elaborate bi-laterally symmetrical finial carved with two pairs of scrolls one above the other with a frog-like face below. The face has circle in circe eyes at either side with wide nostrils, a thin ridge for the nose, and a w-shaped mouth.
Long slim animal with red tusks, a long snout, and an elaborate white crest in a swirl motif. Has protruding, circular dark blue eyes outlined by red and red ears. A protruding, circular red shape is on the back of the neck. Body has dark blue lines with red accents. The back legs stand on the base while the belly rests on the base with the front legs are tucked around at either side.
A hollow cylindrical bamboo piece that has a plain stopper, and a decorated band. The hollow cylindrical bamboo piece has arabesque designs. The stopper is quite long. The decorated band has a spiral design.
Weather mask. Small wooden headdress or mask with a long, upturned, protruding snout. Two wings attached to the top of the mask are moveable. Colours used are red, black, and white.
Wood dagger carved in the shape of a barbed arrow head. Cedar bark is tied to the shaft. Head of dagger is painted red while three horizontal red bands are painted on the shaft.
Metal kris with a curved, damascene blade (part a). Upper portions near the hilt are carved. The hilt is dark yellow ivory carved in the form of a demon with his right arm grasping a dagger behind the head and his left hand at his side holding up a thumb and two fingers. His right leg is turned around backwards and his left leg is straight. Figure is sitting on a carved stool. The blade is fixed into the hilt by a gilded ornamental ring containing five glass stones: two red, two blue, and one clear. One side of the wood sheath (parts b-c) has natural dark blotches while the other side is plain.
Stylized design in colours of black and red on one side only of a small wood paddle. The main design of the blade consist of four outlined u forms that have designs within. The top two u forms nearer to the tip are black while the lower two u forms nearer to the handle are red. The top u form has the following: a red curve, a cross hatched black u form, and a red-outlined u form that has an eye form within. The next u form has the following: a red-outlined crescent shape, an oblong pointed shape that has diagonal black lines within, a central eye form, and a red-outlined split u that has black cross hatching in the spaces in between. The third u form is similar to the first except that there is a black curve line in between the cross hatched black u form and the red-outlined u form that has an eye form within. The last u form has the following: a black-outlined split u that has cross hatching within the lower portion. Along either edge of the blade there are three black curving shapes. The upper end of the handle has a diagonal black diamond shape with a horizontal line at either end. The handle has a horizontal rectangular finial.
Small wooden paddle painted in yellow, white, black, and red. The front side of the blade has a creature in the mouth of another. The main creature has a black oval in white tapering oval eye surrounded by a dark green area, a black nose, an open red mouth showing ten white teeth, a black and green u form behind the head with smaller red, yellow, and green ones behind, four black feather-like features, and two-feathered yellow tail with red and black u forms at the base. The creature in the main creature's mouth has a black circle in white tapering oval eye surrounded by a green area with a yellow face, a green nose, and an open red-lined mouth showing multiple white teeth. A red diamond shape is at the tip of the blade. The back has two diagonal red bands, one across at either end of the blade with 'Port Simpson .B.C.' written in black in between. The handle has a horizontal cylindrical finial.
Mat in a shield shape made of black and natural rattan to form a geometric design that consists of two wide, vertical bands of a plain zig zag on a black background. Appliqued red fabric along the diagonal sides that converge to a point with a heavily beaded panel in the space between. Beaded panel has a geometric design that consists of an open yellow diamond shape that has black shapes around a red diamond shape within while three white, black, and red diamond shapes are equally spaced around the bottom where there is a beaded fringe of the same colours. Blue, red, and white beads border the upper portion of the beaded panel. Two tooth-like objects are attached near the point.