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Round purple quill box, with a star in the middle.

Cylindrical tobacco container or quill box, made by Marie Roy of Wikwemikong Unceded Territory. Partially-quilled with a single green vine with purple flower buds.

Round quilled box featuring a half flower and the colours red, purple, and pink.

Oval quill box made by Angeline Pitawanakwat of Wikwemikong Unceded Territory. Partially-quilled with a floral cross and hatched lines on the lid, sweetgrass edges, and abstract floral designs on the body.

Round quill box featuring a a bird on a branch in the middle.

Note: Record may have the incorrect catalogue number, as it is already in use under GKS #24532.

Square shaped quill box featuring a red flower in the middle.

This black buckskin bag is decorated with ornate quillwork along the border of the bag as well as the flap, presenting colours of green, black, orange and white. The base of this ancestor is brown, which may have been the result of smoking. The back

This ancestor is a hat made of wool, felt, silver, ribbon silk and cotton. Red, blue and black in colour, this hat is topped with eleven feathers, possibly of quail or owl, and has a base of fake brushed beaver. In the centre of the hat's

This miniature baagndibe'gan, war club, is part of a war bundle. It is carved from maple in the shape of a gunstock. In addition to the baagndibe'gan, the bundle contains a headdress, feet and tail of a mshiikenh (snapping turtle), deerskin ball, necklace, rattle, and

This naabkawaagan (naabkwewaagan, necklace) is part of a war bundle. It is made from two strips of deer hide, pieced together with a short strip of blue and white cotton. There are 49 deer dew claws attached to it. In addition to the naabkawaagan, the

The ancestor is a dew claw rattle of Odawa origin from the 18th century. The rattle is made up of a finely smoothed reddish brown wooden stick encased in a tightly fitted leather cover. Eight metal cones and sixty-nine dew claws are attached to the

This deerskin ball is part of a war bundle. The deerskin ball has traces of blue pigment and hangs as a pendant from a mass of black twisted cord with a few quill wrappings. The quills are natural, brown and blue in color.  Worked into

This headdress is part of a war bundle. It is made of deerskin rubbed with green pigment. The lower portion is made of netted hide. It is decorated with twelve dew claws and fifteen brass colored hawk bells.  The headdress is shaped like an apron