Drawing Item Number: 3602/3 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Drawing reconstruction of an old Tsimshian house-front screen in horizontal orientation; done in pencil and pencil crayon. Drawing is of a large raven shown in profile, and facing right side of drawing. Short edges of drawing are bordered with maroon bands. Raven is flying with it's wings spread above it's body, and legs tucked underneath belly; formline design elements throughout interior. Three rectangle-like shapes overtop wings, ears, and mouth, imitating house planks drawing is based off of; shapes are coloured in brown.
Based on house screen boards from a Tsimshian village site near the mouth of the Skeena River, collected by Marius Barbeau in 1915. Wilson consulted infrared photographs of the boards to reconstruct their visible components, using coloured pencil on mylar. This image was constucted to illustrate how the fragments may have formed part of a screen. Drawings 3602/4, 5, 6 show reconstructions of this set of boards. [See 'The Transforming Image' (2022), Page 74, Fig. 3.11.]