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Chief from Git'iks wearing regalia and displaying wealth.

Chief Minesque's chilkat robe on woman in the center. The robe is now in the Royal Ontario Museum.

Gingolx chief wearing regalia, ca. 1900.

Various dolls, bowls, dishes, boxes, hats, and a Blunderbuss. This is some of the wealth displayed in the famous photographs of the Whale house taken by Winter and Pond.

Painting of Whale House interior at the Tlingit village of Klukwan. Based on a Winter & Pond photograph.

Painting of Whale House interior at the Tlingit village of Klukwan. Based on a Winter & Pond photograph.

Painting of Whale House interior at the Tlingit village of Klukwan. Based on a Winter & Pond photograph.

Painting of Whale House interior at the Tlingit village of Klukwan. Based on a Winter & Pond photograph.

Painting of Whale House interior at the Tlingit village of Klukwan. Based on a Winter & Pond photograph.

The Whale house family of Gaanaxteidi men among some of their at.oow (sacred items).

Chief displaying his regalia. Land otter house post in background suggests this is the interior of Raven house, Ganaxtedi clan, Klukwan.

Chilkat blankets, masks, and helmets. A dance apron is draped over the Land otter with copper house post. Ganaxtedi clan at.oow (sacred items)

The Whale house family of Gaanaxteidi men among their at.oow (sacred items). In the centre stands Kuwdu.aat, with his son. Kuwdu.aat and his boy stand between two decorated bentwood boxes that hold the lineage's sacred items. On top of the one on their right is a mask made in the image of X'akat. ahan, the woman who raised the Wood Worm. (description given by Jennie Thlunault in Nora Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer. Has K̲usteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories).

View of the back row of people standing between the posts carved by Kad-jis-too-ach and in front of Rain Wall screen. These appear to be young boys who can be seen posing at the exterior of the house in another winter and Pond photograph (Klukwan016). A number of the items displayed here were collected by Louis Shotridge for the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.

Transformation mask created by artists at the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art, Ksan Historical Village.