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Black and white photograph taken at UBC carving shed during the Haida House Project, 1961. Frontal 3/4 angle view of carver Bill Reid, crouched on top of wood making a cut in what eventually became his Wasgo carving (A50029). Signed on reverse.
Portrait mask. Red, blue and black facial features and tattoo are painted onto the natural wood background. Abalone shell discs and a thin band are glued to the eyes and mouth and a thick coil of red bark rope is attached along the chin line. Long twists of dark hair and tied bundles of painted red bark strips with blue ends drape across the forehead and down the sides.
Seal with an overall square shape (a) and clay slab (b). The seal is incised with designs on both faces, two rows of three parallel incised lines on two opposite sides, and a hole that pierces the object from end to end via the two remaining blank sides. The clay slab is an impression of one of the sides of the seal.
Fragment of glass (six pieces that form a whole) with floral motif in off-white, green, yellow and red on a blue ground.
Pot made of clay with a face just below the flared rim and a grass ring (part b) that fits around the base of the pot. The face has raised circular eyes, a ridge around the eyes, and a recurved nose. A series of bean-like shapes in white, black and yellow surround the face with a brown background, a raised black wavy line border, and a series of emanating fin-like shapes in black and white outside the raised line.
Long club or staff made of dark brown wood. One end has a long narrow spatula shape. The finial is elaborately carved with scrolls and a stylized face. The design is bilaterally symmetrical. The shaft has been cut in half (parts a-b). One piece (part a) has the finial with two pairs of scrolls one above the other on top of the head that has circle in oval in tapering oval eyes that have lines within, wide nostrils that curl inward from either side, a thin narrow ridged nose, and a w-shaped mouth. The other piece (part b) tapers down at one end where it has been cut and flares outward into a rounded spatula-shaped end.
Pointed oval-shaped metal box (part a) with a lid (part b). The box (part a) has a border of chevrons around the sides. The lid (part b) has a geometric stripe design that consists of alternating horizontal bands of circles and of dots.
Oval-shaped metal box (part a) with a lid (part b). The box (part a) has a pattern of diagonal bands that have crescent u-lines within. The lid (part b) has a geometrical pattern of triangles in horizontal bands. Fastened together with staples.
Rectangular metal box (part a) with a lid (part b). The box (part a) has four concentric diamond shapes along each long side and an hour glass shape with a half diamond shape at either end of each short end. The lid (part b) has four sections of alternating concentric squares and hour glass shapes with a half diamond shape at either end bordered by lines that are perpendicular to their respective edges.
Rectangular metal box (part a) with a lid (part b). The box (part a) is plain. The lid (part b) has overall geometric designs in relief that consist of hour-glass-like and x-shapes bordered by lines that are perpendicular to their respective edges.