Bentwood cedar box (a) with lid (b) has painted sides nailed to base and nails along seam corner. Each side has a design of staggered black eyes, some with red and white details, and a thick greenish blue border. The undecorated lid is made of two pieces of planked wood and has 4 strips of wood nailed to the underside.

Uchikake (打掛) with gold, burgundy, blue, green, peach, yellow and brown embroidered designs and a red lining. Design elements include auspicious motifs such as cranes, pine trees, Japanese plum blossoms and the woven patterns on a heavy, creamy white fabric are family crests or kamon (家紋) known as kikkō ni hanabishi (亀甲に花菱), a small diamond-shaped flower motif in turtle shell pattern. The red lining curls up around the bottom of the white fabric to create a thick roll-like ruff known as fuki (袘).

Deer fashioned from the tip of an antler (a) with detachable front legs (b) and two flying geese (c,d) perched on two poles (e, f) that stick into its back. A piece with joined ears is attached with a bone peg at the back of the head. The eyes of the deer are filled with blackened bone.

Heavy black wood gable mask with only the lower half of the back carved out. Tufts of curly black hair and shells are inset into mounds of black clay(?) at the top of the head, eyebrows, eyes, mouth and sides of the nose. The nose is pierced with a long stick and each ear has twisted brown grass rope earrings knotted into two holes.

Carved dark wood figure, painted with yellow, reddish orange, grayish white and brown pigments, with elongated mask-like face that has spiral shell eyes and wild pig teeth with hanging feathers protruding from its nostrils and spines down its back. On top of the head is an elaborate pointed headdress with mask at front and back, on the shoulders are painted masks, and around the face is a fringe of cassowary feathers imbedded, along with an assortment of small shells, into a base of brown clay. Climbing up the figure's legs from the mounded base with decorative bands of circles is a small alligator.

Large glazed white clay mug with Killerwhale design (#21) painted in black and turquoise. Made at Lambert Potteries.

Black and white photograph taken during the Haida House Project, 1961. View of a painted carved bird on the top of a tall pole (A50034) with carved rings spaced down its length. Signed on reverse.

Black and white photograph taken at the UBC carving shed during the Haida House Project, 1961. A 3/4 view of the log from the left shows carver Bill Reid chiseling out the head end of the partially carved totem pole (A50034). Signed on reverse.

Black and white photograph taken at the UBC carving shed during the Haida House Project, 1961. View of Bill Reid bent over behind a large log as he carves out the image drawn onto it (A50034). Signed on reverse.

Black and white photograph taken inside the UBC carving shed during the Haida House Project, 1961. Frontal view, taken from below, of a carved pole (A50030) showing a seated "watchman" figure with his hands around his knees. Signed on reverse.