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Wolf Headdress87.88.58
The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.
- Culture
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Material
- painted wood and cedar bark
- Made in
- Northwest Coast, Canada ? or Northwest Coast, USA ?
- Holding Institution
- Portland Art Museum
Paddle87.88.124
The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.
- Culture
- Haida
- Material
- painted wood
- Made in
- Northwest Coast, Canada ? or Northwest Coast, USA ?
- Holding Institution
- Portland Art Museum
Rattle48.3.705
Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.
- Culture
- Haida
- Material
- painted wood and cedar bark
- Made in
- Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, Canada
- Holding Institution
- Portland Art Museum
Headdress Frontlet48.3.429
Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Material
- painted wood and bear fur
- Made in
- Klukwan, Alaska, USA
- Holding Institution
- Portland Art Museum
(Tray) Batea41.227
THE MOSTRADOR
At banquets and other social occasions, mostradores—flights of steps covered with rich textiles (seen at upper left of illustration)— displayed a household’s finest and most valuable objects. These pieces of furniture were particularly ideal for showcasing silver and gilt-silver trays. Imported porcelain, glass, ivory, and lacquer objects were also ostentatiously exhibited, alongside locally made lacquerware and earthenware cups. In Mexico, round lacquerware trays (bateas), often decorated with religious and mythological subjects, coats of arms, or chinoiserie (Chinese motifs), were particularly prized.
Mostradores were also temporarily assembled in the family chapels of local churches, where the elite would display their costly possessions during important religious ceremonies such as the baptism of a new heir.
EL MOSTRADOR
En banquetes y otros eventos sociales, los mostradores—estantes de forma escalonada cubiertos con lujosos textiles (ver en la parte superior izquierda de la ilustración)—servían para lucir los objetos más finos y valiosos de la casa. Estos muebles eran especialmente idóneos para exhibir platería y objetos de plata dorada. Piezas de porcelana importada, vidrio, marfil y objetos en laca también eran ostentosamente expuestos, junto a loza vidriada y vasos de arcillas aromáticas de producción local. En México, las bandejas redondas de laca (bateas), a menudo decoradas con temas religiosos y mitológicos, escudos de armas o chinoiserie (adornos chinos), eran especialmente apreciadas.
Los mostradores también se montaban temporalmente en las capillas familiares de las iglesias locales, donde la élite exhibía sus bienes más preciados durante las ceremonias religiosas importantes como el bautismo de un nuevo heredero.
- Material
- painted wood with inlaid lacquer decoration
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum