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Stoneware vase with two side lobes or 'wings.' The wings have rounded bodies tapering to flat edges that are pointed at the top corners, and then curve down to meet round flat pedestals. The two wings are attached to a bumpy diamond shaped core. The inside of the hollow core is shaped like an irregular tube. Stylised signature on base.
Large, round, stoneware bottle with flared lip and small round mouth, with a hanging loop on either side of mouth. Ribbing around the front edges is a pebbly brown colour. Discs of green tinged with brown decorate front and back. A braided rope is attached to the loops to form a handle.
Ceramic platter. The front has a white background with painted images of a killer whale, raven, and fish, in black and brown, with incised linear accents. A border of short black lines covers the edges. Inscription on the back describes the scene as "trickster raven inside the great killerwhale after his escape from the irate husband". The platter is rectangular in shape; unglazed.
Ceramic platter. The front has a white background with a painted grizzly bear in brown and black with light blue accents. The animal is seated, eyes wide, mouth open, forelegs raised to the sides, back legs bent. Inscription on the back of the piece describes the scene as "the Great Grizzly Bear before his terrible battle with Mother Beaver". The platter is rectangular in shape, with a shiny glaze covering the front and back.
Small porcelaineous bowl. Body of bowl is deep, squared at lip and round at base. Sides narrow toward the short, round, deeply inset pedestal at bottom. Bowl is glazed off-white inside and out, with a dark blue rim. "CJ" is stamped into the pedestal.
Violin (part a) and bow (part b). Violin has a scroll, four pegs, and an unmarked fingerboard with two strings remaining and attached to the tailpiece, one metal and one catgut. Tailpeice is fixed to the instrument by wire wrapped around a wood peg on the bottom of the body, and no bridge remains. Chinrest is small and made of painted but unvarnished wood, attached by two metal pins that wrap around to the back of the body. Violin is coloured rich red-brown and yellow-brown with a high-shine lacquer. Bow stick and tip are made of a single piece of dark brown wood, with a two-tone metal endscrew. Bow frog is made of ebony with a small inset circle of abalone shell on either side for decoration. (No bow hair remains attached.)
Seventeen piece ceramic installation in earth colours. When arranged for display (left to right) the pieces are as follows: small grey mixing dish with a pouring lip; cream coloured flask with a wide base, narrow neck, and red stopper; tall brown flask with a long thin neck and round body; two-toned cream and grey crucible with a celadon lid; tall, round, brown bottle and stopper; in front is a long spouted red-brown vessel; dark red goblet with a flat base and sharp pouring lip; behind both is a taller thin necked flask in yellow; flat, rounded, rectangular grey medicine bottle; thin necked, grey flask; and lastly, a heavy bottomed grey mortar and pestle. Maker's mark stamped on base of bowls and large bottle.
Black stoneware watering can. Round with flaring sides and flat base, with wide slightly arched handle. Triangular opening above handle, below pointed tip. The long spout is slightly bent at the middle. Maker's mark stamped under handle.
Round stoneware vase with small mouth and wide lip. Background is brown with patches of darker brown and white. Coarse and bumpy texture on surface. Stylized signature on base.
Thin (1.5 cm thick), roughly rectangular, slightly L-shaped, mildly concave piece. One chip broken off. Glued together with A556394. 18th century Labrador Inuit. Found in collection. For reference to jaw scraper see: Bird, Junius Archaeology of the Hopedale Area, Archaeological Papers, American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 39, 1945, pgs. 158-159, Fig. 25f.