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Nuxalk style robe with woven designs. The design is like a three panel distributive, without the panels. The designs are red, yellow and black on natural ground. There are three eagle representations and two thunderbird heads in the centre, a human figure(?) near the top edge and killer whale motifs on the sides. The checkered border along the bottom edge is a raven’s tail design. There is a velvet band sewn along the top edge.
Oval neck ring covered tightly with knitted, patterned red twine over a cloth core. Two sets of twine fringe, consisting of numerous strings frayed on each end, are attached to and hang from ring.
Five bone soul catchers strung together on a string, carved with both ends open, and stained with red ochre.
Woven cedar bark with abalone shell pieces attached to sides. Ermine pelts decorate the top. Two pieces of abalone shell carved and incised. Inner ring lined with white cloth.
Head ring made from woven cord backed by red cloth with four large, square pieces of abalone shell attached around the outside at evenly spaced intervals. Ermine pelts line the top of the ring. Two cords crisscross the top of the ring at right angles, with a large cedar bark tassel attached at the centre.
Cylindrical basketry bag with leather sewn to rim. The rim also has leather ties attached on one side and a cotton string looped through the top of the basket on the opposite side. Cotton string is used for the wefts at the base, but a natural fibre is used for the main body of the basket and for the warps. Some of the warps are dyed a dark brown, but most of them are a yellowish brown colour. The body of the basket is completely decorated with designs, in dark brown, which are arranged in vertical columns. Some of them represent butterflies, quadraped animals (dogs ?), fish, and diamonds.
Coiled basket (with bifurcated stitches) with lid attached. Watch-spring base and lid construction; overcast handle on lid. Partial beading and imbrication. Stepped design on sides alternating black bullrush and red/bullrush; lid - alternating rows of beading and black and bullrush crosses. Rawhide thongs for hinges and ties; plastic button for fastener.
Three rectangular-shaped woven pieces with one piece (part a) fitting into the other piece (part b), and a lining (part c) that fits inside one piece (part a). The first piece (part a) is green with a white zigzag strip woven along the bottom. The second piece (part b) has a white, red, and yellow geometric design on a green background. The last piece (part c) is plain, and natural-coloured.
Urn shaped coiled basket (bifurcated stitches) with coiled handles and flanged lid with coiled handle, part (b). Watch-spring base and lid construction. Imbricated zig-zag pattern in two rows of red an dark cherry bark, cat-tail grass (?), and red cherry bark bands. Lid has solid rows of imbrication at rim in red cherry bark, and in cat-tail grass (?), and a row of dark cherry bark near center.
Part (a) Circular, flared basket (with bifurcated stitches) with lid part (b). Watch-spring base and lid construction, and a foot of three coiled rows. Double coiled top row on basket to support rim. Imbricated design of alternating bands of horizontal stripes in black cherry bark with cat-tail grass (?) in between, and red cherry bark with cat-tail grass (?) between. The foot has two rows of imbrication, one black and one white. Lid has two of these horizontal bands of stripes as on body, and double row of red in centre of lid. Twine handle.