Drawing Item Number: 3602/7 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Drawing reconstruction of a Tsimshian house-front screen in horizontal orientation; done in pencil and pencil crayon. Drawing is of a large raven shown in profile, and facing left side of drawing. Short edges of drawing are bordered with maroon bands. Raven is flying with it's wing spread above it's body, and legs tucked underneath belly; formline design elements throughout interior. One rectangle-like shape overtop tail, imitating house plank drawing is based off of; shapes are coloured in brown.
Drawing is based on planks 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 drawing was constucted to illustrate how the fragments may have formed part of a screen. Drawing 3602/8 was also created from this reconstruction.