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Shirt of chain mail, composed of chain armour and decorated with leather bands. The armour and weapons of West African kingdoms and Sudanic states were very like those used during the Middle Ages and provided little protection from the rifles and…

Chilkat blanket woven from mountain-goat wool and yellow-cedar bark Tsimshian style, British Columbia The yarns were died black, yellow and green by boiling in solutions of urine, hemlock, copper and certain species of lichen, and were woven into…

Ladle with a large bowl and bird's-head figure (in shell inlay) at the end of the handle.

Panel pipes carved out of argillite, a dark slate, comparatively soft when mined which hardens after exposure to the air Haida style, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia Made for sale to Europeans, most of the pipes illustrate sailors of the…

Shale pipe, carved with figures and an umbrella. Panel pipe combining both Haida and Euopean-American motifs.

Shale pipe, carved with human and animal figures, latticed window in centre.

Shale pipe, carved with double-headed bird, dog, and human figures.

Panel pipes carved out of argillite, a dark slate, comparatively soft when mined which hardens after exposure to the air Haida style, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia Made for sale to Europeans, most of the pipes illustrate sailors of the…

Shale pipe carved as a frieze-like scene of 7 gambolling figures.

Shale pipe carved with 6 figures, wheeled waggon and flowers.