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Small painted square pot with a circular opening at top. All four sides and upper edge are painted with abstract designsmimicking Northwest Coast ovoids and U shapes. Designs are in red, blue, black and white; clay is dark orange-brown. Pot previously broken in half and glued back together. Signed "Klee Wyck" on unpainted base.
Photo-based work showing a section of the Museum's Great Hall in 1991. Image shows the Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch platform with a large eagle sculpture at the centre top (A50042) and various large feast dishes and a Dzunuk'wa feast dish lid arranged around the two level concrete platform. Photograph is framed with white painted wood and plexiglas.
Photo-based work showing a section of the Museum's Great Hall in 1991. Image shows two sets of Haida pole fragments (A50000 a-d, A50002 a,c) installed on concrete platforms, with two students sitting on a bench nearby. The students appear to be drawing. The photograph is framed with white painted wood and plexiglas.
Large round cream coloured plate, with stick figure design carved into the dark grey upper surface. Artist inscription on base includes title and date.
Somewhat oval-shaped bowl with brown and dark brown glaze pattern inside. The outside is painted with black Northwest Coast designs over the light brown surface. Base signed JC 84.
Large ceramic sculpture of half of a giant bean pod (part a) with 8 ceramic beans (parts b-i) of different sizes that sit inside the open pod, filling it from end to end. Pod is dark brown with a light pink-off white tip at one end. Interior of pod has symbols etched into spaces that match those marked on one side of the beans that fit in each part of the pod. Beans are all a light pink to off-white colour.
FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1897; FIG. 8; P. 736."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/6 , retrieved 12-10-2019: Crooked knife. This item was identified by Roderick MacFarlane as a Hudson's Bay Company voyaguer's knife. The long, curved iron blade and the shape of the wooden handle is typical of crooked knives made and used by French Canadian and Métis voyaguers hired by the HBC to transport supplies to trading posts and to bring fur from the trading posts to warehouses in the south. It is not known if MacFarlane acquired this item from a voyageur, or from an Inuvialuk who obtained it from one of the voyageurs who worked for the HBC. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/18: Crooked knives were used for shaping wood, bone and antler. The Inuvialuit style of crooked knife has a small blade attached near the end of a curved handle. The knife is held with the fingers of one hand on the underside of the handle, and the thumb positioned on top of the blade in an indentation in the handle. The craftsman rests the underside of the blade against the object being worked, and draws the knife towards the body while using the thumb on the hand holding the tool to check the depth of the cut.
Large glazed white clay mug with Killerwhale design (#21) painted in black and turquoise. Made at Lambert Potteries.
Black and white photograph taken during the Haida House Project, 1961. View of a painted carved bird on the top of a tall pole (A50034) with carved rings spaced down its length. Signed on reverse.
Black and white photograph taken at the UBC carving shed during the Haida House Project, 1961. A 3/4 view of the log from the left shows carver Bill Reid chiseling out the head end of the partially carved totem pole (A50034). Signed on reverse.