This is a dark buff colored pottery bowl with an orange slip rim. Exterior is plain. Interior has a deer facing right followed by a man on horseback.

Buff colored pottery bowl with dark red slip figures painted on exterior and interior. Rim is also painted with red slip. Figure painted on the exterior is a large red deer. On the opposite exterior side of the bowl is a small abstract design that may be the artist's signature. Figures representing a man with a headdress (bottom of the bowl), a man with a hat on horseback, and 3 deer (facing right) are painted on the interior in red slip.

The paint is black, red, green, and blue.

The paint is green, blue, red, and black.

The function of small carvings of human figures like this one is unknown. Here a seated female figure is represented. She sits with knees drawn up in the characteristic posture of the old-time Kwakwaka'wakw women. The woman's head is elongated in the form of a truncated cone which may represent a basketry hat, but more likely depicts the type of skull deformation prevalent among Kwakwaka'wakw women at the time of Euro-American contact. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

Small figures like this one, sometimes dressed in a miniature replica of the shaman's regalia, may have been made for use in his practice. This small man half-crouches, his hands on his knees and his mouth half open as if speaking or singing. A projecting flange on top of his head appears to have been a means of attaching hair or a headdress. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)