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Start Over Collection place Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia Culture or time period North American native cultures Loans S1963-1964 #9: UC San Francisco Medical Center (September 3, 1963–October 11, 1963)
Hearst Museum object titled Canoe model, accession number 2-7143, described as Carved from yellow cedar; varnished, with black grizzly bear design. Lack of groove on prow indicates poorly finished boat. (Yellow cedar and grizzly bear design identified by Charles Brown.)
Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 2-15545, described as Wood carving; kneeling man in kilt, killing [new interpretation is that this genre shows a man torturing a witch] (by twisting hair) a crouching female slave (?) in skirt; painted: pink skin; red lips; brown hair and eyes; grey-green clothes; wood cracked
Hearst Museum object titled Hat, accession number 2-15520, described as Rain hat. Twined basketry hat with red, blue, and black painted totemic designs of bear. Bear design identified by Charles Brown (Tlingit) June 1964.
Hearst Museum object titled Totem pole, accession number 2-15541, described as Carved, painted. Figures top and bottom: wolf, beaver with 5 potlatch rings on head, grizzly bear holding upside-down human figure; grizzly bear: painted red-brown, green, black, blue, orange, white. Back hollowed out like old house posts. Animal figures identified by Charles Brown June 1964.

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