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View of a Yurok house and roof, constructed out of redwood.

Yurok Grandmother sitting in "double-ended" redwood canoe.

Indigenous Hupa ceremony, depicting dugout canoes as they pass along the river, in ceremony.

Three Yurok men carve and finish a canoe built from a single redwood log.

Hoopa Woman crossing the Trinity River by Canoe, likely traded from another tribe due to their lesser proximity to redwood.

Hupa men traveling by redwood dugout boat up the Trinity River.

The objects were commonly found in Indigenous sweathouses. On the left and right are examples of Yurok stools carved out of redwood. In the center of the image is a pillow carved by the Hupa Community.

Interior view of a Yurok sweathouse, which shows the round exit and its cover, as well as the pillow carved from redwood on the floor to the left, rectangular with a shallow curve, it was used to lay down below the level of smoke from the center…

Scene of a Yurok Village in Wahsekw, depicting the traditional redwood-plank styled houses.

Interior view of the opening to a traditional Yurok redwood-plank house in Requa village.