Composite Toggle Harpoon with Lanyard Basketry tray The top of the hat

The top of the hat has a narrow band of red and black wool yarn with worn yellow and white silk ribbons hanging down from the center

They are carved from red cedar

It has two beaded panels

and red quilled concentric bands

and the Raven mask

Composite Toggle Harpoon with Lanyard Basketry tray The top of the hatThis is one of those kind of artifacts that is interesting and rather uncommon. It is composed of two opposing carved bone pieces with sharpened tops which hold the point. This is then wrapped tightly with the end of the lanyard leaving the two sharpened tops and the point exposed. These were constructed by the Native Americans from the Washington coast up into Alaska. This particular piece has a a tag identifying it as from "Cook Inlet Indians" in