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Description

Vertically rectangular wood piece. Abalone bird design with human arms and legs. Plain face has oval abalone shell inlaid eyes surrounded by a tapering black oval and a blue area, a black beak that is red down the middle, and an open red mouth showing one oval abalone shell inlaid tooth. The red limbs are bent togehter with two vertically rectangular abalone shell inlaid pieces in between. Red all around and bordered by square shale inlaid pieces around the sides and the top.

Narrative

Said to have been collected by Donald MacKay while he was the Indian Commissioner for BC, 1937-1948.

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