Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund

By exchange

Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Object is a ball-headed war club. Linear curves of upper handle and ball-head carved with scallop shapes that are decorated with black paint. Beveled edges of handle are painted red. Ball and handle are ornamented with burned file decorations. Condition is good.

This is a perfectly scaled model of a birch bark and ash splint canoe. The exterior or weaker side of the canoe faces inward, and the hull is almost completely lined with the ash splints. On the outside of the canoe model, pitch was used to cover the seams. Painted red circles are incised at bow and stern. Black, red, and blue paint decorate the rim of the model canoe.

Bequest of W.S. Morton Mead

Brooklyn Museum Collection

Hollowed out tubular pipe. Often used in the sweat house, pipes were used for locally grown tobacco. This type of pipe is hand-carved out of hardwood, usually madrone, manzanita or oak, worked with sandstone, and polished with fibers of horsetail rush to create a very fine finish.

This spectacular necklace is made from coral and turquoise beads, several loops with one black pendent stone. Length is for necklace closed.

Stone carved in the shape of a bird with a hole drilled into center.