Large wooden bowl. Long and narrow, carved from rosewood, with thick walls, and a wide base that is concave on the underside. Ebony wood is inset along the outer rim in a line of diamond and triangle shapes, below which are carved the outline of birds in a linear design. On one end of the bowl sits a large sculptural element showing a shark transforming from its human shape. The figure of a man emerges from below, with large head, flat jaw, heavy brow and shell eyes, and is backed by swirls and circular designs. On the opposite side of the bowl is an eagle, wings angled behind the head to rest on the edge of the bowl, beak in contact with the upraised tail of a fish whose head supports the bird’s belly. Abalone is used for the creatures’ eyes, and in a repeating motif along the lip of the bowl.

Brown ink print on thick, cream coloured paper. The image shows a large canoe at top, four figures seated inside and rowing with long paddles through large waves with rounded tops. Below, under the surface of the water, is a stylized triangular net containing several fish (bonito tuna) of various sizes, all decorated with linear designs. The boat, fish and net are surrounded by palm leaves to edges of the image, representing the technique used in traditional Solomon Islands fisheries of herding a school of fish toward a net using the leaves. Serigraph 2/30.

Silkscreen print on light tan paper. The artwork shows, in a rust brown, a central conglomeration of salmon and their predators, such as birds and wolves, in a stylized linear style. The image is bordered by a thick line of black and tan motifs in ovals, sickles, thin lines and curving triangles.

Silkscreen print on square white paper. The central, round artwork is a series of concentric red circles and grey squares with increasingly intricate motifs of triangles, circles and sickle shapes in white. The whole is bordered by a thick black ring.

Intaglio print on white paper. The central, round artwork is a line drawing showing a brown, front-facing, seated bear, toes together, knees raised, holding a large green frog with stylized features, its back to the viewer. The snouts of the two are in contact. The background is a pale yellow.

Silkscreen print on white paper. Central round artwork depicts the profile of a large white and grey bird in flight, black and grey wing pointed down and emerging slightly below the circle of the image. A human face in profile can be seen in the top line of the wing. The bird flies in a blue sky over the white ridged, black mountainous outcropping of Black Tusk, in British Columbia’s Coast Mountain Range.

OBJECTS OF EXCHANGE: SOCIAL AND MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION ON THE LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NORTHWEST COAST. GLASS, AARON EXHIBITION CATALOG, 2011, Publisher: BARD GRADUATE CENTER

Octagonal drum with deer hide stretched over a wooden frame and secured at the back with sinew. The face of the drum has a splash pattern at the centre in black ink. The hide is translucent along one half of the drum. The sinew, threaded through the edges of the hide, is pulled to the centre like spokes. A piece of elastic black string has been tied to two of the sinew spokes, for hanging.

Round drum with cream coloured hide stretched over a wooden frame and secured with thick hide ties at the back which are looped through a hide circle. The front of the drum is decorated with black ink around the edges with four roughly ovular black ink shapes at the centre. At the centre of the back, in the circle, the hide ties are braided into a cross shape and a black string is attached for hanging.