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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 wing, along with the upper half of body, tail feathers, and crest; formline design elements throughout interior. Rectangle outline overtop drawing, imitating house plank drawing is based off of; left edge of drawing is bordered with a maroon band. Title and artist signature written along left edge.

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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.]

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