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Trial Proof Etching1401/6

A black raven-like figure in profile and facing to the left side. Has a circular head-like object in the open beak. Wings and claws are slightly spread. The left wing has six feathers while the right wing has seven feathers. The three-feathered tail curves inward. The etching is on a horizontally rectangular, white paper piece.

Culture
Haisla
Made in
Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Trial Proof Etching1401/3

A black and grey ovoid shape with fin-like projections out of the top on the left side and out of the bottom on the right side. Cross hatching in each fin and in the centre of the ovoid. The etching is on a vertically rectangular, light brown paper piece. Note: this piece is almost perfect mirror-image of 1401/1.

Culture
Haisla
Made in
Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Trial Proof Etching1401/1

A black and grey ovoid shape with fin-like projections out of the top on the left side and out of the bottom on the right side. Cross hatching in each fin and in the centre of the ovoid. The etching is on a vertically rectangular, white paper piece.

Culture
Haisla
Made in
Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hunclee-quilasA1535

Wooden northern style canoe with a Haida design painted on the outside. The canoe is painted black with Northwest Coast stylized designs on the ends in red, white and black. Depicted on each side is a Killer whale with its head and dorsal fin on the prow and the body and tailfins on the stern. There is a red border around the upper edges. The ends sweep upwards. The prow is grooved to hold a harpoon or mast and has a vertical fin to cut through waves. The interior is also painted black and has three rectangular bench seats.

Culture
Haisla
Material
red cedar wood and paint
Made in
Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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EnvelopeNb3.1396

Commercial white business envelope folded and glued in three triangles at the back with the fourth triangular flap folding from the top and remaining loose with blue along the bottom edges. Envelope front has a red insignia rectangular on the left side four-fifths of the way up the side and has a black line drawn styled profile bird head facing down with a three teardrop segmented tail below, a line sweeping up and around on either side, and three lines at either side of the tail. Writing/printing at the top left side in black ink reads 'Lyle Wilson / #9 Wherever St. / Van., BC.', and at the centre 'F. MacDonald / Ottawa, Can. ??"

Culture
Haisla
Made in
Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PaperNb3.1397

Sheet of white letter sized paper with a round insignia at the top left corner that has a red line drawn, stylized bird with a profile head facing to the left side, a three teardrop segmented tail below; a line sweeping up on either side and three lines on either side of the tail. Watermark reads 'Eagle-a type-erase 25% cotton fiber USA.' The paper is vertically rectangular.

Culture
Haisla
Made in
Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DrawingNb3.1395

Stylized image cross-cut behind by a wide diagonal, shaded band. Image is bilaterally symmetrical. At the top, there are profile bird heads with hooked beaks, open mouths, and a circle at the beak and along the central join. Eyes are ovoids with u section out from the eyes. Central portion of the image has a series of discontinuous circles within circles with a split u underneath. Ribbon-like bands tapering to points and extending out to the edges. At the bottom of the image, there is a face with discontinuous ovoids in ovoid eyes and a circle at the nose and the forehead. Mouth is split u's in u's to side with diagonally lined u section to the outside. Limb to outside has ribbon-like tendrils on lower part, paw or hand, 2 'clawed', diagonally lined circle at palm, circles, and u and split-u details. Below the face, there are three curved,bands tapering to a point with elongated split in all, two to outside have two u's to the end, one is diagonally lined with a small circle near the point. Inscription in pencil up from the bottom on the right reads 'L. Wilson '84'. The drawing is on a vertically rectangular, deckle edged, or torn, light grey paper stock.

Culture
Haisla
Made in
Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ButtonsNb3.1394

Central image in a shaded rectangle with a border of decorated circles. Central image is a discontinuous ovoid in a series of ovoids with a circle at the centre, and is alternating shaded and unshaded. From the top right side and the bottom left side, there are nearly matching u forms split at the inside, then lined diagonally, and then with the top only having an ovoid in the outer band. Thirty-two evenly spaced, decorated, matched circles outline the central image. Decoration consists of a profile bird head with a hooked beak and three apostrophe-like sweeping appendages on a diagonally lined ground. Circles on the borders. Five across the top have alternating profile views of a bird with a hooked beak, an eye at the body centre, and tapering bands indicating wings and tail feathers on a diagonally lined ground. Five across the bottom are alternating mirror-images with a central ovoid eye, a split-u in the u form above with an elongated ovoid, a small circle, and two tendrils with a fish-like face that has a circular eye and an open mouth below. Detail in split u and eyes is crosshatched. Background is diagonally lined with a scalloped inner edge of border. Narrower side borders have four rows of two floral decorated circles, a larger circle with an ovoid with two u forms (mirror each side), three rows of two floral decorations, repeat of larger circle (mirrored), three rows of two floral decorations, and larger (mirrored) four rows of two floral decorations. Diagonal lines across ground of each. Pencil inscription along the bottom edge reads 'Buttons Lyle Wilson'. The drawing is on a vertically rectangular, grey paper piece.

Culture
Haisla
Made in
Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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When Worlds CollideNb3.1393

Series of design units. At the top right, there is a black and white banded ovoid with a u-shape extending on the top right side and the lower left side. U forms have black band to the outside, a second band has diagonal lines across, and a split u at the ovoid. Below and to the left, there is a second unit as the first except it has a scratched appearance and is broken where the u form and the ovoid join. Third unit is below and to the right and is further scratched and divided. Across the bottom, there are disconnected and very scratched segments of the same design. Below the image, there is a written pencil inscription which reads: 18/30 "When Worlds Collide" Lyle Wilson 3/13/79. The print is on vertically rectangular, white deckle edged paper with the bottom left edge cut on an angle. Framed.

Culture
Haisla
Made in
Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Frolicking WhaleNb3.1392

Black and very dark grey stylized image with twelve variously and brightly coloured (in rainbow sequence) bands sweeping across the top from the left in an expanding arch, each band having branch-like projections towards the end. The image below is in two parts, coming together at the centre top. On the left, there is an ovoid profile face on an angle with crosshatching around the eye, a semi-circle 'spout' from which multi-coloured bands extend, an ovoid nose, even teeth rows with prominent canines, and above and below the head, there are u forms in bent u form. Centre u form has diagonal lines across, closest to head is split, outer is dark grey, the top is slightly bent, with a small circle at the end, bottom ends in sharp point with a circle just before. Right side has an ovoid frontal face on an angle with two diagonally striped u forms in split u, beside the band above the ovoid tapering to a point at the top. Below the face, there is a hand with diagonal striping between the digits and the crosshatched ovoid palm. Written pencil inscription across bottom reads '15/47 Frolicking Whale Lyle Wilson '81'. The print is on a vertically rectangular, light white-brown deckle edged paper piece.

Culture
Haisla
Made in
Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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