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DrawingNb3.1417

Cut-out pink cardboard profile image of a sea creature ? with pencil and/or pencil crayon drawn details. Creature faces to the left with a large head that has double crests on top. Series of u forms in a semi-circle above and to the right of the ovoid eye. Wolf-like teeth. Body curves in an extended c-shape with various ovoids, circles, and other shapes along its length. Cross hatched ovoid at the bottom centre.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ravens in Nest2675/1

Print is an abstraction or stylization of three raven heads with beaks pointing upward in the foreground and abstract forms in the background. Two ravens are facing each other and their beaks overlap. The third is facing the other two and its beak borders the head of its neighbour. Background is a pattern of three lines of split u-forms in blue, red, and black. Design has a wide red border. Pencil inscription along the bottom edge: MP Ravens In Nest 05 Cranmer. Vertically rectangular print, on light brown paper.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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The Weget LegendNb7.295

Black rectangle divided into four quadrants. Each quadrant consists of a separate stylized image. Across the top, there are two figures underneath a red gable roof. Above, there are black diagonal lines on the left side and a notched black line following the roof to the right side. Frontal figure on the left side has arms raised beside the head. A red three digit hand on the right side holds a red split u in a black u form while the black hand on the left side has five digits. Has a black ovoid head with black eyes, and the other features are red. The shes has two red split u's in black u forms with a red line at the centre with rib-like red lines below. Large black ovoid in ovoid below with red legs bent up to the sides ending in round black feet with a single digit appendage. Large figure at the top right has arms raised to either side of the head. A five digit black hand is on the left side while a three digit black hand is on the right side. Black outlined hat over black ovoid head, black eyes with the other features in red. Series of black split u's, red u fomrs, and black u forms give a robe appearance to the body with large black ovoid in ovoids at the knees. Bottom right has a red circle with radiating red lines to the quadrant edges and an elongated salmon-trout ovoid across the centre. Bottom left has a diagonal frontal frog-like face with three digit limbs to either side and a crosshatched triangle filled lower half of quadrant. Divided from the frog, top right to bottom left, by notched red band, there are circles and split bands on the right and the bottom. Pencil inscription across the bottom edge reads '25/75 15/8/77 THE WEGET LEGEND Roy Henry Vickers TSIMSIAN TRIBE KITKATLA B.C.'. There is an embossing on the lower right corner for 'NORTH WEST COAST INDIAN ARTISTS GUILD member' with a salmon-trout head at the centre. The print is on a relatively square, light brown paper piece.

Culture
Tsimshian
Made in
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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SisiutlNb3.1366

Bilaterally symmetrical image with frontal face flanked by profile faces connected by curved band; main lines in black, secondary features in orange-red and orange, tertiary features in brown. Central ovoid face, outlined in black with curled ear-shapes above, circle within circle eyes outlined with tapering ovoids, surrounded by orange. Orange-red mouth, even white teeth, tongue protrudes over centre bottom teeth. Unconnected hands below face on either side with double black ovoid palms and orange fingers and thumb. Curved bands are three thin parallel black bands with rows of u-shapes between, centre u's are reversed from top to bottom; top and bottom in alternating orange and brown; centre alternates in brown and orange-red. Profile faces have curled ear-shape; orange-red tongue protrudes from mouth with even teeth rows, canines are two triangles forming square. Eye as in central face; black nose curves up over central orange ovoid. Pencil inscription at bottom reads '77/200 sisiutl beau dick 81'.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thunderbird and WhaleNb11.300

A main design consisting of two separate stylized figures. Figure above is a bird in black with red and blue detail and the wings spreading in an upward curve. Bird's profile head is facing to the right side with a curled beaked and blue around the black circle within the oval eye. Red split u in u form ear with u form appendage. Wings have four projections on each side with red split u's at top and thin blue lines between. Serpent-like figures form the top of the wings with the face at the 'shoulder' and curled tail to the outsides. Hind limbs are bent and at the side of the body with hand-like appendages. Oval body with red curled up figure at centre. Three tail u's to the bottom. Bottom figure is a profile whale with its head to the right side and ah wide bright blue band across the centre. Round eye shape with split u's down the fin. Top band has a sharp angled hole to the left of the eye, and ending in a paddle-like tail with black detail. Under side of whale is red-orange with even teeth row outlined in black on the right and black details on the left. Pencil inscription along the bottom edge reads '89/100 Thunderbird and Whale AThompson 1/78'. There is an embossed stamp at the bottom right that reads 'Open Pacific Graphics'. The print is on a horizontally rectangular, light white-brown paper piece.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Ditidaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Family Dance CurtainNb11.299

Stylized images with two similar mirror-image birds at top, large container-like object at centre. Two similar mirror image animals along bottom. On right centre edge is a profile mask; scalloped border across top. Birds face to centre; spread, curved wings with four u-shaped segments on each side in red-brown with black detail; black rectangular body and three segment tail; red-brown head at top with slightly crooked beak. Detail of birds varies with plume, central body and number and thickness of lines in mouth. Animals are profile, wolf-like with red-brown bodies, curling tails and upper limbs. Lower limbs, ears, eyes, canines and other details are black. Minor variations include '*' at centre body on left, '+' on right; more teeth indicated on left and variation on split-u ear detail. Large central cylinder is black with squared-off lip and base, constricted below rim, sides taper to larger base. At top is red-brown fire-like mass with curling appendages. Scalloped edge is red-brown across top, bisected by black-line scallop across bottom. Pencil inscription across bottom reads '123/150 Family Dance Curtain A Thompson 7/80'. Embossed stamp at bottom right: Open Pacific Graphics. Printed on beige paper stock.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth: Ditidaht
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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