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Small wooden paddle with one side painted green, red, yellow, and black. Tip and shaft at handle tip are painted red. Other side at handle is painted black.
Small wooden paddle with a painted figure on one side of blade. Tip and just below handle are red.
Model paddle with a painted abstract design in yellow and red on a black background and delineated by incised lines. The blade tip comes to a rounded point, and the narrow neck joins the blade and the flaring handle shaft.
Miniature rectangular shaped dish carved out of a thick plank of wood. The centre has been hollowed out, the ends are angled with concave impressions. The exterior has a slightly bevelled surface below the proximal edge. Painted with red, black and gold designs on the exterior surfaces. An animal face resembling a beaver, is present at each of the ends, while stylized bird-like designs are centred on each of the longer sides. The gold paint is used primarily as an accent colour. The artist signed the base, in red paint: "Made by Stanley James, Nanaimo B.C."
Linear design on face painted red and black. Head and arms only. Prominent jaw.
Fish-like shape; inlaid with shell triangular motifs around borders and through centre and two round inlaid shell designs on one end.
Club has handle with half circle finial, and is wrapped with braided fibre that is filled in with pitch. Diamond-shaped paddle-like end has perpendicular ridges.
Carved wooden bowl with rectangular top that has rounded corners, and oval base. Raised band around rim at outside; two triangular protrusions just above base on each of the narrower sides.
Mask (a) made from two pieces of wood joined down the centre of the mask at an angle and supported by a triangular piece of wood at the top. The mask is painted white with heavy black eyebrows, light blue around the circular eyes with a red and blue design element at the temples, red nostrils, a black scalloped design that arches over the cheeks from the nostrils to the chin, a black moustache, red lips, and a black line under the lower lip. A tuft of off-white and brown feathers, some of which are painted blue at the tips, are attached to a wooden stick with blue string and adhesive fabric tape that has been painted blue (b), and the tuft fits into a hole in the top of the mask.
Mask (a) depicting a flat face with slightly pointed chin, the area around mouth slightly recessed with protruding red lips. Painted with heavy black eyebrows, blue around the eyes, and red on the nostrils. There is a black painted moustache, a scalloped design in black and red around the mouth area, and a black u-shape with two white circles beside the eyes. The remainder of the face is white. Two bunches of grey, brown and white feathers secured to two wooden sticks with blue string and adhesive white fabric tape (b and c) fit into two holes in the forehead.