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Symmetrical design is predominantly black with red detail. All images are contained in a basically rounded rectangle. There is a head at the top centre protruding from the bottom, a horizontally elongated frontal face with a protruding tongue and a salmon-trout head eye motif, and a small frontal face with three split u's above up to the ovoid with a nearly solid inner ovoid. Frontal face at the top has a series of six split u's along the top of the head with a triangle shape below the chin. Two profile faces are on either side with a red curled s-shape above the teeth row and having the tail come to a point and the forelimb go to the centre. Pencil inscription across the bottom reads '207/225 Raven travelling with Sculpin Dempsey Bob '79'. There are three embossed marks along the bottom edge, from the right: 'The Gallery Collection', a circle with a vertical line, and a discontinuous horizontal line. The print is on a vertically rectangular, near white paper piece with a deckle edge top and bottom.
Forehead mask of a woman, whose head is a rattle, sits on the forehead of an eagle; hair, black wire wrapped around ends, is inserted into eleven drilled holes on top of the woman's head; black and orange-red paint are used to emphasize features; front human head has black brows and eyes; wide flat nose has orange-red nostrils; wide continuous orange-red lip band; prominent cheek ridges; ears on either side of head; back of head is yellow cedar with flat face depicted in incised circle; black brows; circular black eyes; broad flat nose with orange-red nostrils; wide continuous orange-red lip band. Body, shown only on front, has arms slightly extended and bent, elbows and forearms rest on eagle's brows, hands are downturned; legs are drawn up next to chest, four black claw-like toes on each foot. Eagle has black brows with horizontal rows of short orange- red lines; black bulbous eyes; thin sharp beak incorporates wide orange-red lip band, flattened semi-circular nostrils on either side; orbital ridge melds with cheek ridge which follows line of lip band; triangular depressed area under lower beak. On reverse, a leather strip is attached to either side by a singular stitch of white waxed cord, cord is also tied around leather. Signed inside: 'B' 'D'/87 'Dempsey Bob Tahltan Tlingit.' Unpainted wood is finished with oil.
Alder wood eagle mask with bear's head in centre of forehead; copper nails used to attach black and white bear's fur to outer rim; one stitch of white waxed cord attaches fur between bear's ears; white fur along eagle's jaw line; hair, with black wire wrapped ends, extend from four holes drilled into rim of bear's ears; features are emphasized in black and orange-red paint; bear's ears are outlined in black, centre has incised split u above two vertical lines; ridge in centre of forehead; black slanting brows; black eyes; orange-red nostrils and lip band; upper teeth are visible, top and bottom incisors overlap lip band. Eagle has black brows with small horizontal incised lines, fur overlaps brows; bulbous protruding eyes; orbital ridge melds with protruding cheek ridge; thin sharply curved beak incorporates wide orange-red lip band; flattened semi-circular orange-red nostrils on either side of beak. On reverse, leather strips attached to either side by one stitch of white cord; mask signed 'Dempsey Bob, Tahltan-Tlingit '87'; incised 'B' in a 'D' next to signature; unpainted wood finished with oil.
Large bowl with short, curved handle; the inside of the bowl is incised with design of a sea creature resembling a dogfish. The handle is carved as a bird, inlaid in four places with abalone. 'a9ka' and 'al' are incised into the lower part of the bowl
Curved piece of bone incised and carved with the figure of a sea creature, its head forming the top of the piece and the body most of the length. The lower end has the head and body of a human-like form. The creature has rounded bulging eyes and a large open mouth, six horizontal ridges across the top of its head, and four long scale-like features around its neck. The upper portion of the body has an incised grid-like pattern while the lower portion has a crescent-rib-shaped-like pattern. Horizontal ridges go along across the back. The human-like form has oval eyes with thick brows above, a flat triangular nose, and a thin closed mouth while the arms rest at either side.
Knife whose blade has been cut down from a larger blade or other utensil. It is hafted by being wedged into a slit in a wooden handle and bound with a leather strip. The butt end is carved with the figure of a bird above a human with ribs showing.
Wooden barbed fish hook. Roughly v-shaped, with bone barb projecting downward from the tip of one arm toward the junction of the two. The other arm is in the shape of a bird, with a hole bored through its back. The two separate arms are bound together at one end with split root and cotton cord.
Fourteen pointed teeth; deeply incised design on one side shows a hawk with the hind quarters of a frog below; on the other a human face with prominent ears, a wolf or bear cub below. Inlaid on both sides with small pieces of abalone.
Carving made on half a piece of tubular bone. Convex side is carved with a head having a round eye and square muzzle. Behind head is a row of four round shapes. Above this is a round humanoid face enclosed by two split u's; below is another face.
Frontlet figure? Thin rectangular carving with a concave rear surface, convex front surface. Main area of the front is a human-bird style face on a long neck. Mouth is open with upper teeth of abalone exposed. Nose is shaped as a sharp beak curving down and attaching to lower lip. A panel above the forehead is carved with a humanoid creature with arms and legs projecting from either side of its face. The back has had its side edges smoothed down to make it flatter.