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Circular white dish with thick flat base, shallow curving sides and fluted wavy rim. On one side of well is a spray with rose, tulip and other flowers; on other, a single flower. Small flowers and leaves on rim. Gold lip.
Hat with narrow, downwardly curving brim and tapering, truncated crown with flat top. Black silk gauze ribbons at each side. Hat is woven of black, shiny material and is translucent. Circular rims around head and edge of brim. This hat is relatively coarsely made, and the crown has only one layer. Hats fits onto hat stand, 1059/2 a-b.
Small wooden paddle, with a painted bird head design. Tip of letter opener is painted red with red cross-hatching at the other end; handle and reverse side are unpainted. Artist signature and date on the back.
Very long, narrow, black and grey textile, decorated with many horizontal rows of resist-dyed or painted red disks that are overprinted or stamped with black cross-shaped motifs, like petals of a flower. Sections woven with wool or goat hair yarns alternate with sections woven with cotton yarns. Long black fringes at each end are made by tightly twisting the warp yarns.
A red painted earthenware hollow seated female figure, sitting with the knees folded under. The figure's left arm is bent so that it's left hand is at the back of the head. The figure's right arm is bent so that the right hand is holding a rattle forward. The rattle is a round ball with a protruding point at the top centre and a cone-like handle. There are breasts and a slightly rounded belly. White eyes with black pupils, open mouth with white teeth. Earrings and necklace.
Small (child's) thunderbird headdress with a curved beak, protruding ears, cedar bark hair, and red and black paint. Inscription on reverse.
Woman's necklace of 23 painted or stained wooden beads of various sizes and shapes (cubes, spheres, barrel-shapes), strung on yellow, red and blue twisted cord.
Tall square bentwood box with black and red painted Northwest Coast stylized distributive designs. The front and back have complex designs; the sides have two sets of thinly outlined black ovoids. The box is pegged together at the side seam and on the bottom. Base is split and joined with nails. There is no lid.
Pole of T’st’entsit. Carved in high relief out of cedar wood. Crest figures from top to bottom: mythical woman; Kulus (related to Thunderbird); sisiyutl (double-headed serpent), its horns now missing; human form of sisiyutl, holding a copper; Gwa’wina (raven). The large protruding beak of the raven has been attached. The entire surface is painted in black, white, green and red.
Doll representing a male figure carved out of wood with articulated shoulders and ankles. His face and hands are painted white with hair, eyebrows and eyes painted in black, and a mouth painted in pink. A braid hangs down his back, tied at the top with a long black ribbon on one half of which are adhered four square gold decorative elements. He wears a very pale blue hip-length silk jacket lined in white, lapped to his right and tied at the waist with a separate pink sash tied in a single-loop bow. The sleeves of the jacket are made of parallel bands of various bright colours. The jacket has a self-facing at the neck and a narrower white facing. Under it is a white cotton jacket that is slightly shorter. The figure wears full white cotton pants tucked into ankle wrappings which extend over white socks.