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Unfinished strip of orange textile, heavily embroidered with a row of alternating yellow and white half-circles, decorated with small mirrors. Flanked by two bands of continuous multi-coloured chains outlined in black. Narrow green and purple stripe on top of wide band of multi-coloured triangles, connected to multi-coloured diamonds, all outlined in yellow, decorated with white dots on colours and between. White-yellow backing. Top edge is selvage. Three other edges are unfinished, but fastened with basting.
Round, wrapped twined basket (a) with lid (b). Base is plain twining with small cedar rectangle at centre, row of twining in alternating purple and light yellow-brown demarcates base from wall. Walls decorated with one purple row at base, faded purple geometric zigzag design in middle of basket, two rows of purple separated by row of light yellow-brown at top edge. Rim is faded purple wrapped twining. Lid is round with knob and has cedar bark inner rim. Row of purple wrapped twining between inner rim and undersurface of lid. Decoration consists of concentric circles from knob, one row purple, one light yellow-brown, one row purple, eight purple geometric designs; one row purple, one light yellow-brown on outer edge, knob decorated with light red and light green, two rows light red around base. Inner rim has cedar bark woven through narrow cedar strips, finished with braiding.
Unfinished, embroidered and mirrored rectangle. Centre panel is red cotton(?). Border is black cotton embroidered with multi-coloured cotton. Centre panel is embroidered with eleven semi-circular floral patterns with mirrored centers and many petals, two stylized peacocks, chevrons and tridents. Floral patterns are outlined with a double row of chain stitch. Panel is bordered by a row of closely spaced small mirrors which is banded on each side by two linear borders of chain stitch. Black textile border is cotton embroidered with closely spaced mirrored floral patterns which are outlined with two rows of white chain stitch, leaves and chevrons. Embroidered with chain, inter-lacing and buttonhole stitches. Lining is pieced together from four different pieces of yellow-white cotton. Embroidery passes through lining, edges are unfinished but are held by basting stitches.
Rectangular, handbag-like carrying basket with twisted cedar handles attached to the upper rim opposite each other. Base is cedar bark checker work overlaid with grass; two wide cedar bark bands; grass faced wrapped twining band in the middle with designs in light red, orange, purple and green of canoe, whale, birds and geometric floral motifs.
Rectangular, green glass bottle with bulbous bottom, squared middle, bulbous top and slender cylindrical neck; bottle is entirely covered with a woven basketry sleeve (a) and cap (b). Cedar bark and grass base in plain twining and central checker work. Geometric design around bulbous bottom and top; four dark blue birds between dark blue and purple bands and eight purple parallelograms on squared middle. Two purple birds between parallelograms on neck. Tightly fitting lid with purple sunburst design.
Flat-based, rounded jar with tapering neck and flared lip (a) covered in a woven grass sleeve; round woven lid (b) with knob handle in the centre attached to jar with brown thread. Cedar bark and grass base in plain twining with central checker work. Design of six concentric bands of linear patterning with various colour combinations: orange, green, purple, and red.
Rectangular, tapered, basketry covered bottle with a tall, slender neck. The basketry is of very fine wrapped twined grass and cedar bark, with a plain twined base with central checker work. Design is six sets of concentric bands in purple, light yellow-brown and green. One wide band around top of neck is brown. Design has faded on neck and top of bottle. Stopper has crown-like metal top.
Circular basket lid with a red knob handle in the centre. Round wrapped twined lid with hollow faded red knob which is attached only by one unravelled strand. Design is of two bands of faded purple, yellow and purple on outside edge and around knob area. Two faded purple whales between bands. Solid red band around knob.
Napkin ring of wrapped twined grass. Two bands of purple around both ends and a purple geometric design around the middle.
Oval shaped birch bark container with tapered, almost square base; sides flare outwards. Rim reinforced with a bent twig lashed with spruce root. Stitched together at narrower sides with spruce root. Dark inner bark on the outside of the container has been scraped away in places to form a design of lighter colour. Design consists of two horizontal bands, each band consists of five scraped rows; two outer rows with triangular motif extending outwards, three inner rows straight and narrow. Note: bottom band on one side has only two inner rows. Rim has seven to eight wraps of green coloured spruce root at endpoints and two to three wraps of red coloured spruce root divided by two wraps of natural spruce root at midpoints.