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Oval-shaped basket (a) with straight sides and a flat, fitted lid (b). Sides: wrapped twined weaving; base: twined weaving around cedar bark; base: large cedar strip. One band of meander design on side and top. Base and warp: cedar bark with grass sides; swamp grass and aniline-dyed swamp grass. Colours: purple, blue.
Hat with sloping brim and flat crown with slight indentation. Several different kinds of twined weaves: brim - mixed twined weave, i.e. Plain-twined weave with a 'skip stitch' (also known as diagonal-twined weaving) which gives a chevron twilled pattern. Border is a braided cut-warp border. Crown - sides of crown are woven in three-strand twined weave with top of crown in concentric band of three-strand interspersed with plain-twined weaving. Inner support section - diagonal-twined weave. Warp and weft; design painted in red-brown, green and black paint. Expansive and representational.
Side of baskets are wrapped twined openwork. The top border consists of warp strands coiled around splints (wrapped warp border). The base has two strand twilling plaiting. Dark green fibre is tied on the inside of the basket .
Cylindrical basket (a) with a flat, fitted lid (b); lid has a knob-like handle in the centre. Basket and lid are decorated with figurative imagery of ducks and ambiguous canoe-like motifs. Colours: red, blue, purple.
Short cylindrical basket (a) with a flat, fitted lid (b); lid is held in place by a cedar flange that rings the rim of the basket. Stylized zoomorphic figure repeated around sides and lid in black. Compound bands of black and yellow stripes around sides and lid; black circle in centre of lid. Base: checker work with plain twined or wicker weave. Sides and lid: wrapped twined weave.
Basketry hat with primarily plain twined weave with some diagonal twined sections on the brim. Above the crown of the hat are a series of four cylindrical protrusions of plain twined weave around the sides of each, and twined and wicker weave on the underside of each with a hole in the topmost protrusion. Two bands of black on the brim and on the cylindrical protrusion below the topmost protrusion.
Long narrow strips of cedar bark - alternating red and light golden colours. Folded over at the top end and twined together with two rows of string. Large white feathers are tied to the bark strips at intervals.
Alternate strips of red and golden coloured cedar bark. Strips are folded double and twined together at the top with two rows of string.
Skirt made from alternate groups of strips of red and yellow cedar bark folded double and secured with two rows of twine, one along the top and one approximately halfway down the length. There are twisted twine ties on either side.
Alternate strips of red and golden coloured cedar bark. Strips are folded double and secured with two rows of twining near the top. A white feather tied to one of the strips.