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Dark Sky3354/1

Large, unframed painting on a rectangular piece of handmade "washi" paper. Painting depicts a craterous landscape of oil barrels with groups of red pipelines and rivers of black snaking through. Bursts of yellow extend from some of the barrels while others have drawings of fish, humanoid faces or other creatures on the lid. The background is a solid black sky. Signed in the bottom right corner.

Culture
Haida
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing3296/1

Sketches of bentwood bowl-shaped bracelet in pen, pencil and pencil crayon. Drawing is on sketch pad paper. Profile, overhead and bottom views of bracelet drawn in pen in the top right corner. Top left corner has a frontal 3/4 angle view of a bentwood bowl with curved sides and ends. Human face carved onto front and profile of a bird carved onto the side; coloured in bright orange and yellow, with pencil and pen. Pencil inscription below. Underneath, along the left side of the paper, there are overhead sketches of the bracelet done in pencil. In the middle of the page is a coloured, frontal 3/4 angle view of the bracelet . Bracelet has the same carved face on the front and bird profile on the side as the sketched bentwood bowl. Bracelet is coloured in bright orange and shaded with red, bright yellow, dark green and pen. Pencil marking points to the back left corner of sketched bracelet to show where the hinge would go. Along right side of page, next to the bracelet drawing, there are indecipherable numbers written in pencil. Below the numbers, in the bottom right corner, there is a rear 3/4 angle view of the bracelet done in pencil. Another pencil inscription above the rear angle of the bracelet, with indecipherable initials. Various pencil smudges and lines across the paper.

Culture
Haida
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Totem Pole3360/1

Model pole fully carved on the front and sides, and hollowed in a V-shape on the back. Likely carved of alder, with a separate base of painted fir. Figures represented from bottom to top include: a bear holding a killer-whale in its mouth; a human with its hands over the bear's eyebrows; a bear holding a downward-facing raven in its mouth; a salmon in the raven's mouth; a killer-whale in split view; an eagle. The pole is highlighted with some elements painted green-blue, black, red and white. Other areas are unpainted. The base is painted black and nailed on.

Culture
Haida
Material
alder wood ?, paint, fir wood and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spoon, Carved Handle16.1/2091
Inside Pole For Model House16/8770

CHARLES EDENSHAW. WRIGHT, ROBIN K. AND DAINA AUGAITIS, CURATORS EXHIBITION CATALOG, 2013, Publisher: BLACK DOG PUBLISHING, LONDON, UK NORTHERN HAIDA MASTER CARVERS. WRIGHT, ROBIN K., 2001, Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ETHNOLOGY OF THE HAIDA [OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS]. SWANTON, JOHN R. MEMOIRS, 8, 1905

Culture
Haida
Made in
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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Mixed Media Painting16.1/2977
Halibut HookE436193-0

A contemporary Tlingit-style wooden halibut hook carved by Leslie Isaacs (Native name: Tsaandaay/Ts'aang Gaay), a Haida craftsman, in Craig, Prince of Wales Alaska in March 2013 and commissioned by Jonathan Malindine for educational purposes. It is an example of the kinds of hooks that were produced and used by both Tlingit and Haida peoples of Southeast Alaska. The name of the artifact in the local language is náxw (Lingít [Tlingit]), or ýagw táawaay (Xaad kil [Haida]). Such hooks were used by the people of the Northwest Coast to catch large halibut. Bait was tied at the intersection of the two wooden elements. Fished just off the ocean floor, a biting halibut will become hooked when the barb is embedded into its head. This hook has been carved from red cedar and yellow cedar and has a deer bone spike (Sitka black-tailed deer, Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis). Jonathan Malindine comments that hooks such as this one are now only rarely used for fishing. Their "function now is primarlly decorative, while production is an act of connection to cultural heritage." He notes that usually the upper element (i.e. non-barbed, wooden section) is carved with various motifs and figures. This object represents a standard, perhaps utilitarian, exammple of a traditional Northwest Coast halibut hook. The fish hook was sent to SI wrapped in a tan soft leather which is included in storage with the object, but may not have any cultural significance.

Culture
Haida and Tlingit
Made in
Craig, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Basket3336/1

Basket made of woven spruce root with two repeating imbricated designs around the exterior - three stepped horizontal lines near the top, and larger spiral designs. The basket is cylindrical in shape, with the base raised slightly (convex) at the centre.

Culture
Haida
Material
spruce root and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bark Breaker16/136 C
Seal Harpoon And Sheath16/28 A