kihlgii sk’aangwaay (Staff)

Carved brown wood staff depicting a frog, a bird figure with a hat, a frog, a beaver with a hat, a frog, a human figure, a frog, and a human figure with a hat (from the bottom to the top). The first, second, and fourth figures from the bottom have circular abalone shell inlaid eyes. The frog at the bottom has high rounded nostrils and a thin mouth. The bird figure with a hat has a flat beak with nostrils, a mouth, five digit claws in front of it, and three-feathered side wings that have an eye in an ovoid at the upper part while wearing a two-ringed hat. The frog above has thin wide nostrils and a wide mouth. The beaver has two holes for the nostrils, four buck teeth, a cross hatched tail, and its front paws curling outward in front while wearing a three-ringed hat. The frog above has oval eyes with its neck stretched upward while the figure above it is pulling it upward with a hand in the frog's mouth. The human figure above has circular eyes, a nose, and a mouth, and is bending while curling its body around the staff counterclockwise with its right hand down the mouth of the frog below and its left hand up to the frog above. The frog above has circular eyes and a mouth while wearing a two-ringed hat. The human figure at the top has circle in tapering oval eyes, a nose, and a mouth while wearing a three-ringed hat as well as a cape, and holding the hat of the frog below it in front of him.