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Dark brown polished wooden staff. The carved figures are: a bird with a large beak across the top, a human figure below the beak and in front of the bird's body; then another human figure, tall and wearing a ringed hat, with an upsidedown bird head projecting upward from his front, near the centre; the bottom section is plain and round.
Long, wooden staff with a red painted, carved, spiral head that comes to a point at the top. The undecorated, cylindrical shaped base ends with a large four sided spike protruding out.
Long, wooden staff, cylindrical in shape consisting of a carved handle with a whale figure depicted. The front part of the handle has a carved human face, the back has a fluke while the top is a projecting dorsal fin.
Talking stick, or speaker's staff, with upper lacquered section decorated with totemic figures, and the lower tapering cylindrical portion painted dark green. There is a brass sheath on the tip with a rounded brass point emerging from the centre bottom of the staff.
Carved, wooden talking stick depicting (from bottom to top) an octopus(?), human with copper, wolf with a copper in its mouth and a human head it is paws, bear with salmon, human figure with copper and thunderbird. The talking stick is painted black and red with Northwest Coast stylized designs. The bottom has a cone shaped piece of metal. The back is painted red.
Speaker's staff consisting of a cylindrical wooden staff with a tapering, cylindrical shaped piece of metal protruding from the bottom. Along the staff are seven copper-shaped pieces of wood nailed to surface, painted in brown, red and white with lines and dots. All of the images are the same. Two of the coppers have been purposely split on the top while one is complete broken in two.
Staff with five sided, flat-topped head. Each side of the head is carved in a series of geometric designs, deeply incised.
Carved wooden staff decorated with two figures. Lower figure is the angularly carved face of an old man with a full moustache and long beard, which curls three times around the stick. Amongst the beard curls are carved a mouse and a fly. The upper figure is a standing naked man holding a staff in front. Some carved sections are darkened for contrast. The entire stick is heavily shellacked.
Brown wood staff with a long handle that is pointed while other end has a flat blade-like projection in the shape of quarter of a circle. The handle has a wide horizontal band around it.
Staff with a female head topped by a column of rings, surmounted by another head. Both heads have their eyes closed, have a triangular nose, and a closed mouth. The hairstyle of the top head has incised curved lines around the front which extend around the back to surround the vertical grooves at the back. The hairstyle of the bottom head has sections of vertical and diagonal incised grooved lines. Has a base.