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Alternate strips of red and golden coloured cedar bark. Strips are folded over on the top and secured with a row of twining. A lower row of twining extends halfway across the skirt. Long narrow strips of cedar bark - alternating red and light golden colours. A large white feather is tied to the cedar near the middle.
Small, cylindrical woven basket (a) with a fitted lid (b); lit has a raised knob in the centre. Plain twined weaving with skipped stitch weave at top. Three bands of purple alternating with natural vertical stripes placed out of phase with each other, resulting from plain twined weaving (two-strand) using one purple and one natural weft element.
Oblong basket in plain twined work with embroidered design; braided handle and rim. Zig-zaged pattern with "v's" in alternating colours of purple and orange on strips of brown. Handle has a strand of orange grass running through it.
Round mat with lattice twined weaving: turned warp border. Central purple circle with a continuous band of triangles in a sunburst-like formation. Purple exterior edge border has inward pointing green triangles. Two bird-on-arrow stylized figures are in the middle range with their wings outspread to either side.
Plain twined openwork basket with direction of stitch changing with each row; twisted cedar bark loops at each corner; wire around rim bound on by blanket stitch.
Double woven hat with spruce root wefts on outside and red cedar bark wefts inside. The hat has a domed appearance with indented top. The warps are red cedar bark, and are plaited at the top. The warps are split and twined with spruce root. Double strand twining is used to cover first three and then two warps at a time for several rows, and then one at a time. Some of the warps near the top rim have been dyed. A large area of natural coloured spruce root wefts follows, with triple strand twining preceding a decorative band. This horizontal band of zigzag design is done in yellow and faded purple. Near the bottom rim there is a row of triple strand twining that is dyed purple. It is followed by two rows of double strand twining which alternate purple and the natural yellow. The bottom of the hat is finished with a row of triple strand twining with purple dyed wefts. The hat liner is woven with red cedar bark wefts, except for a few areas where grass is used. The top is also plaited and then the warps are split and twined. There is a decorative row that alternates light yellow and purple dyed grass. Several rows of double and triple strand twining in red cedar follow. A hat band of diagonally plaited red cedar bark is then introduced. It has a strip of grass plaited into it near the point of attachment. Decorative bands in purple/yellow and purple/turquoise follow. The warps are split in two again near the rim.
Plain twined weaving (two strand) with black and natural strands and with both natural strands; also has a variety of twilled weave (known as skip stitch) along top border; five bands of alternating dark and natural weft; top border of radiating chevron twill design.
Basket woven with two strand twined weaving with border at top of alternate twined weave and twisted weave (three-strand weft).
"The Raven Dances with Frogs" robe. Hand-woven chilkat style child's robe, shaped like a horizontal rectangle on three sides, with the lower edge curving downward to the centre. Long warp fringes of brown and white yarn along the lower edge tapered to be the longest at the centre, with supplementary fringes of white yarn. Main panel is composed of complex formline design in black, white, yellow, and turquoise, outlined in narrow black and white braids, a wide surround of yellow, another band of braids, and an outer surround in black. Double band of braids of brown and white yarn at each side, ending in four bands of wrapped yarn, two black alternating with two yellow. The main panel has a rectangular human-like face at the centre front, above which are two yellow eye forms containing frog faces. Below the rectangular form are two inverted eye forms, beside which are feet with claws. Above these on each side are two more eye forms in yellow. At the midpoint of each side edge is a rectangular profile human-like face looking inwards towards the centre. Throughout the robe the braid outlining is raised from the finely-woven surface, making it three-dimensional. Only the major designs show on the reverse, not the braids.
Cape consisting of long shreds of alternating red and yellow cedar bark folded over at the top and fixed with a row of twine. Additional row of twining halfway down the length. The top has a band of deteriorated grey wool. Numerous eagle ? feathers tied on at intervals.