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Carved wooden, crooked beak mask. The beak has large red elongated, cutout nostrils with a two incised white s-shapes on top. Running from the brow is a long central black frill that protrudes outward then curves downwards to the top, tip of the beak. The mouth is red, flat, wide and protruding. The underside of the beak is black with a black, white and red face carved in relief. The bottom parts of the beak are hinged with rectangular pieces of leather. The eyes are black, outlined in white and black on a white ovoid shaped ground; the brow is black. The inside of the mask is hollow with the exception of pieces of fibre twine that articulates the beak. The top and sides have small bundles and a braid of cedar; few tufts of eagle down intermixed. There is a long metal strip that runs along the top of the head. The mask is painted black, white and red with Northwest Coast stylized forms.
Large black, orange, white and red raven mask with flared, open nostrils near the top of the beak. A thick cedar bark fringe covers the crown and back of the mask.
Black, white, red and orange thunderbird mask with a long, hooked beak, prominent red nostrils, and a curvilinear cutout in the beak's centre. Cedar bark studded with large black feathers crowns the mask, with additional cedar bark affixed to the rear and bottom edges.
Cedar bentwood box with a lid (part b). All four sides made from a single cedar board (approximately 3/4 in. thick), steamed and bent into three right angle corners. The open seam is nailed together. A separate cedar board is nailed on to make a bottom. Box is bound with a network of twisted cedar ropes tied with large knots. Lid is constructed of a series of cedar boards nailed together through two crosspieces along the bottom. One side of lid has an upturned flaring edge.
Mask with a prononced brow, hooked nose, downturned mouth, recessed eye sockets, and four angled protruding wooden planks with rounded ends. The mask is painted off-white with a red fin-like linear design on the forehead, black eyebrows, green around the eyes, dark red over the nose and mouth, red and green on the protruding planks, a black moustache and goatee, and a dark red design on the cheeks as well as spots of dark red on the jaw.
Thunderbird mask with pronounced curved beak, orbitals are recessed with slight protrusion of eyes. Two attached horns curve from top of head. Remnants of feathers and skin above brow. Painted in green, red and black.
Carved wooden sisiutl headdress is in 3 pieces that are attached with wire. Two side pieces are nailed to a thick circular leather band. Sisiutl face has red horns (parts b and c) and snake faces have red tongues that stick out the rear of the headdress. All have green around eyes.
Black humanoid mask with protruding forehead, recessed eyes, hooked nose, and pursed, red lips; eyebrows and head have bear fur trim. Facial features are red.
Hawk with a crane's neck and head above the body of the hawk. The neck of the crane forms an extension of the hawk's neck. Wings consist of slats of wood and canvas. Both heads move together, controlled by strings that hand from the front and inside of the mask. Colours are black, green, blue, red, yellow and white.
Thick wooden spear with a cylindrical shaft that is carved in two sections with interlocking ends. The top of the spear (part a) is carved in the form of a sea lion transforming into a whale with an eagle perched on its neck. The whale/sea lion figure has a metal dagger-like blade protruding from its mouth, two human hands at its sides, and round mirror insets for eyes (one missing). The bottom of the lower half spear (part b) is carved into a humanoid face, eyes closed, with two large, protruding zoomorphic ears. Spear is painted with black and red.