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This relative, an exquisite headress belonging to the nineteenth-century Odawa Chief Zaagiwinebi (Sakiwinebi), is Anishinaabe from Manitoulin Island, South Bay. The striking headdress is made prior to 1880, of ​​black woolen cloth, loon skin, beige string, birch bark, natural cotton fibre, hair and Pileated (red

Watch bag made of skin with a beaded concentric circular design. Originally owned by Mrs. Wilhelmina Anne Blake Brough and passed down to donor. Manitowaning, Manitoulin Island. Anishinaabe.

A birch bark container made by Dan Samson of Sheshigwaning, Manitoulin Island. A type used to collected maple sap but he used it for battery water. Collected by June Smith. Anishinaabe.

A pair of loom woven beaded garters on red warps with diamond motif. Collected by Manitowaning merchant John Reynolds before 1920. Anishinaabe.

Beaded tobacco pouch collected by Paul Radin in Jun 1912 from Thomas Aptosinch (Aptasweh/Abtossaway) \"Little Current\" at Manitoulin Island. Anishinaabe.

Pair of Anishinaabe loom woven garters with beadwork. Collected by Manitowaning merchant John Reynolds before 1920.

A wooden cradleboard from Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island, sold by Mrs. Dave King to Edmundo Faubert in 1980 Used by relatives of Mrs King's husband c. 1920. Anishinaabe.

Awl made from a deer ulna bone worked to a point. Collected by D. Jenness in 1929 in Parry Island, Ontario. Anishinaabe.

Sample bundle of basswood bark or bash, boiled with wood ashes and partially shredded in preparation for bag or cord making. Collected by F.W. Waugh in the Summer of 1916 at Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island. Anishinaabe.

Ball-headed war club with ball projecting from top part of the shaft with a human figure carved at the top. Has two circular holes carved in base of handle and base of ball. Painted commercial paints of black and red. Collected by John Reynolds before

Sweetgrass basket with a floral design embroidered in quills on birch bark lid. Bought by Ronald McDonald from Manitowaning, Manitoulin Island, Donor bought basket in 1919 from "Ottawa Ojibwa Indians."

Sweetgrass sewing basket. Rectangular base of birchbark and porcupine quill tacks with sweetgrass walls somewhat oval, sewn with black thread. Made by Victoria Shabeno in 1945; collected by Miss June Smith, 1961. Anishinaabe. Possibly from Manitoulin.

Ball-headed wooden club stained dark brown with a white rectangular band around the bottom of shaft (probably remnant of old label). Undecorated. Collected by John Reynolds, merchant at Manitowaning, Manitoulin Island before 1920. Anishinaabe.

Unpainted miniature ball-headed club. Collected by F. W. Waugh summer 1916 from Mrs. P. Manitowabi, Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island, identified by him as a \"toy war club.\" Anishinaabe.

Wooden ball-headed club of dense hardwood painted red with a bundle of hawk feathers (split and dyed orange) attached to it with commercial thread. Collected by John Reynolds, merchant at Manitowaning, Manitoulin Island before 1920. Anishinaabe.

Pipe bowl carved from dull, red pipestone (catlinite) with an anterior projection and crest and lead inlay. A. Speyer collection. Ojibwa.

Pipe bowl carved of grey stone. Made by the grandfather of Isaac V. Asinewe of Wikwemikong, Ontario. Collected by F.W. Waugh. Ojibwa.

This relative is the bowl of a smoking pipe, pwaagan. It is Ojibwa, made of black steatite and is decorated with a crest and incised rings around the bowl and stem-base. The crest is a thin, rectangular section that extends up from the stem-base. It has

Plain pipe bowl carved from single piece of catlinite. Collected by General Sir Gordon Drummond. Ojibwa.