These include a birch bark canoe, traditional basket and bear spear. Hunting and fishing implements made of ivory, bone, wood and medal are also featured in this exhibit, as are grass baskets. Drums of animal skin and wood indicate the importance that these people place on dance. This exhibit space also has several items of traditional clothing, including parkas of bird skins and ground squirrel. There is also a diorama with a traditional-style kayak and information on the styles of kayaks made throughout the circumpolar region.
Kayak exhibit showing kayak frame and hunting accessories.
The Thunderbird Screen, a wooden painted panel, was made for the Thunderbird House in Yakutat, Alaska, in the early 1900s. This part of the exhibit also contains one of the famous Chilkat blankets, bentwood boxes and the top of the Lincoln Totem, a totem pole whose carver evidently used a photograph of the president as a model. The eagle tree diorama includes young and mature eagles, a brown bear and cub and a variety of small birds found in Southeast Alaska. Visitors ascend to the second floor of the Museum via a circular ramp that surrounds the tree, so they begin at the base and follow it upward. The experience is enhanced by a mural on the walls surrounding the ramp, depicting a Southeast Alaska scene from water level to the top of a typical mountain range.