A three-dimensional male humanoid figure puppet. Has a large head and jointed arms attached to controlling rods. The red face is positioned straight forward and has bulging eyes with red irises, a large nose, facial hair (moustache, beard, sideburns), and details painted in black. Prominent whi...

Plain, cylindrical, brown wood handle (a) with a buoy shaped stone head (b) secured by a woven band. The handle tapers to a point at the bottom end.

Four cylindrical pieces of wood that bulge slightly towards the centre. Parts a and b have a ring of bark around the centre; parts c-d are plain wood.

Cylindrical, twilled basket (part a) woven in a diagonal pattern with folded strips of grass. Has a string tied twice around the outside near top. Wadded up dark brown-green and black cloth (part b) is inside at the bottom. There is also a coil (part c) of plant fibre, possibly rattan?

Plate (part a) with image of flower procession on cream ground with border of geometric design in gold and dark blue. Rim has slightly lobed shape. Inscription on underside of base. Small triangular piece (part b) from previously repaired broken edge is loose.

From card: ""Obtained by Chittenden from an Indian Chief of Kokcilla Tribe at their village on Vancouver Island, British Columbia; Explorations of 1888. The 9 figures carved thereon represent the legendary and mythologic characters of northwestern natives. Made from slate deposit A.C. Is., B.C." ...

Provenience note: many objects in the Chirouse collection were catalogued as Duwamish, however that really only seems to definitively apply to Catalogue No. 130965. Accession record indicates that the collection is the "handiwork of the Snohomish, Swinomish, Lummi, Muckleshoot and Etakmur Indians...