The American Museum of Natural History restored a well-known exhibit which had been on open display in the museum for 80 years. The exhibit consists of a Haida Indian canoe 64.5 feet long in which the museum mounted 17 life-size modeled figures of Northwest Coast Indians clothed and accoutered with fabrications based on ethnological specimens in the collections. Restoration required repair of the plaster figures after removal of many layers of paint as well as cleaning, repair, or replacement of the accompanying objects the figures wore or carried. A project supervisor and participant relates the history of the group and briefly describes restoration procedures.