Gift of Jerome Furman

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Amber coloured; net weight in process.

Yellow Agate from a sample of chipped materials and bone. Found in a shell midden on the Oregon Coast by R.S. Kidd and D. Abbott on April 8, 1962. C. Svensson May 20, 2002

Seal carved from one piece of beige and black agate with a tree, a rock, a fisherman, and a boat depicted on one side in relief and emphasized with paint (?). The seal has a rounded top, a rectangular box-shaped body and a seal surface carved with Chinese characters.

A pale amber-coloured snuff bottle (part a) carved with stylized t'ao t'ieh motifs holding rings on the shoulders. There is a stopper (part b) made of rose quartz encased in bronze with green patina, and there is a hand-shape at the end of the stick. The wood stand (part c) has the shape of an oval within an oval that has straight ends, and has four legs.

A semi-translucent honey-coloured background snuff bottle (part a) decorated with a dark coffee-coloured rooster, and butterfly in relief. There is a stopper (part b) that is made of an orange-brown stone outlined with green. The wood stand (part c) has the shape of a scroll with a flat top, and inward curled sides.

A truncated bottle-shaped snuff bottle (part a) that is brown with streaks of red. There is a stopper (part b) that is made of orange coral (?) surrounded by turquoise-blue. The wood stand (part c) has the shape of an oval, and has four legs.

Mottled red, grey-white and brown cylindrical segment of stone.