Drawing Item Number: 3602/5 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Drawing reconstruction of a plank for a Tsimshian house-front screen in horizontal orientation; done in pencil and maroon pencil crayon. Drawing is of a raven's ear, and the upper half of their beak; formline design elements inside ear. Rectangle outline overtop drawing, imitating house plank drawing is based off of. Title and artist signature written along left edge of drawing.
Drawing is based on a plank from a Tsimshian village site near the mouth of the Skeena River, collected by Marius Barbeau in 1915. Lyle Wilson consulted infrared photographs of boards to reconstruct their visible components, using coloured pencil on mylar. 3602/3 was created from several other reconstructions (3602/4 - 6 a) to illustrate how the fragments may have formed part of a screen. [See 'The Transforming Image' (2022), Page 74, Fig. 3.11.]