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Lashing rope made from twined cedar bark tied with 17 knots, which form a rectangular shape.
Red cedar neck ring consisting of triple strand twisted rope. The top and bottom have fibre twine wrapped around. The sides have strips of cedar and twine wrapped around, attaching smaller twisted cedar strands that dangle down. One side has 21 strands, the other has 26. The ring is oval shaped.
A bundle wrapped in bark (part a), bound with roots (part b) and containing two stones (parts c-d). The bundle is roughly rectangular.
Dark brown wood spear, round in cross-section, with the shaft tapered to the butt. The tip is coiled with binding of flat plant fibre, now partially broken, covering the point to 48 cm. from the tip. In the binding, there are set broken remains of five sets of four bone barbs at 4, 13, 23, 35, 45 cm. from the tip. Thick plant fibre sleeve is 53.7-55.3 cm. from the tip. Carved with figures that have circular eyes and a large diamond-shaped nose with a wood ball below.
Circular based chair has rectangular back and curved armrest with same decorative intertwined bamboo splints. Bamboo splints interwoven in plait-like weave on seat, surrounded by bamboo grass tied with bark. Support of 2 inverted v shaped branches, one part of branch in base the other extends behind chair; all joints affixed with black glue. Criss-crossing bark under seat, and wrapping around rim underneath gathered bamboo grass. Base: wide smooth overlapping wood strip forms circular base; crisscrossing bamboo strips extend upward from base to wooden rim at bottom of chair seat. Black adhesive is used on all joints.
Strips of inner cedar bark wound into a single bundle and bound together by a small strand of cedar bark.
Light yellow-brown stripped cedar root that is coiled and bundled in the centre to form a figure eight.
Light brown burlap(?) covering over a rectangular block shape bundle of blackened substance and stitched up one side with cotton(?) cord. Bundle squeezed between two sticks and all three wrapped and knotted together with fibre lashing. Sticks taper at ends with each finished in a knob and both touching while they are wrapped and knotted with cotton(?) cord held on the ends by the knobs.
Wide sheet of thin, tan-coloured material made from bark. One side paler than the other. Many repairs made with sinew thread; also some patches. Edges unfinished (no fraying). Grain appears to be diagonal to the edges; often the grain direction is crossed perpendicularly.
Pair of snowshoes, each made of two light brown wood sticks, stripped of bark and bent into a U-shape. The two U's are bound together facing each other, the ends overlapping and forming an ellipse. The binding is composed of four strips of light yellow wood, steam-bent and knotted, one around each end of each U, and two kinds of plant fibre cord, one used as lashing across centre of ellipse and the other loosely tied around the former. Between the overlapping ends of the U's are wood wedges.