Browse Items (802 total)

  • Collection: Collecting the world

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Carving in wood of figure group: chief seated with fly whisk, beaded crown with birds on top, below are 3 female servants standing, and at base two wives, seated. Described in Reid (1912) as a 'fetish'.

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Pair of boots in sealskin (legs have lost hair), decorated with cotton embroidery in green, blue, red and purple, sole in suede-like hide, tan colour, toes pleated, red thread around tongue/sole seam. 'Made by Mrs Lane, a half-caste, for Sir William…

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Coat Newfoundland This long coat was made from pieces of sealskin sewn together and fastened with ivory toggles. It is made in a European style but using traditional Inuit materials and techniques. It is recorded as having been made for MacGregor by…

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Stone axe. Inscription: Old label: 1

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Stone axe. Inscription: Old label: 42+1M

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Stone axe. Inscription: Old label: 42+1M

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One of two carved wooden spoons, with decorations in red paint.

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Humanoid mask with moveable eyes. Formerly had fur moustache and beard. Could be Coast Tsimshian or Haida.

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Humanoid mask, boldly carved with unusual openings cut through above the eyes.

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Humanoid mask, apparently once had fur eyebrows as well as moustache and beard. Also had some sort of moveable eyelid.

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