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Silkscreen print with circular design in red and black, on white background. Depicts image of frog, with face in full view and body split down vertical axis. Design in centre of circle, made up of two red and two black ' leaf' shapes. The frog is one of the emblems of the Eagle clan. It is a print of a Charles Edenshaw crest design which was originally painted on a spruce root hat. Claude Davidson, a well known Haida artist and an hereditary chief in Masset, Chief Dadens, designed the print. His maternal grandfather was Charles Edenshaw (1839-1924), who has come to be known as the first professional Haida artist. Silkscreen prints are a recent development in Northwest Coast Native art, but they incorporate traditional design techniques and subject matter. The prints are often given away at potlatches as gifts from the host to the guests. Prints are also sold commercially to non-Native buyers; Excellent; Complete
Silkscreen print in red and black, on white background. Depicts Haida Mother Bear in profile. Raised front paw bears image of human profile with profile of young bear being placed at mother' s feet. Back of figure is decorated with full frontal frog image and shoulder is decorated with depiction of a face. The print was designed by Christian White, a well known Haida artist from Masset. The Bear Mother story is a popular Haida myth, both for prints and for story telling. Silkscreen prints are a recent development in Northwest Coast Native art, but they incorporate traditional design techniques and subject matter. The prints are often given away at potlatches as gifts from the host to the guests. Prints are also sold commercially to non-Native buyers; Excellent; Complete
Tungurahua-style Corpus Christi band made of an embroidered yellow silk panel sewn onto a burlap backing and then lined with orange cotton cloth that wraps around to form a framing edge. Embroidered motifs are in red, blue, brown, orange, maroon, pink, black, beige and green wool and include flowers, birds, deer, llamas, men hunting, musicians playing the harp, trumpet and drums, and a couple dancing. Small translucent and silver discs of plastic have been sewn into the middle of the design and a border of wide strips of gold foil paper is attached to the sides, with long yellow stitches on three sides and machine stitching on the fourth.
Hanging band from the shoulder pole of a Cotopaxi-style Corpus Christi costume. Made of two long embroidered orange silk panels sewn together back-to-back, with a turquoise cloth edging on the two long sides, and attached with long stitches to a lining made of several pieces of purple and unbleached cotton cloth. Embroidered motifs differ on each side; red, pink, blue, brown, white, orange and green flowers, a figure, and a bird on the side with yellow slk top band and pink, black, white, orange and blue flowers, three figures and a monkey on the other. At the bottom end on one side is a band of silver paper outlined with pink wool from which hang strands of green wool.
Hanging band from the shoulder pole of a Cotopaxi-style Corpus Christi costume. Made of two long embroidered yellow silk panels, back to back with burlap lining between, sewn together on three sides with an unbleached cotton edging, leaving one end unstitched. Embroidered motifs differ on each side; red, blue, brown and green flowers and hearts on one side and pink, maroon, and navy birds, stars and flowers on the other, interspersed with strips of silver covered paper.
Miniature clay kitchen scene inside a wood and glass case. Three small female figures, one behind the stove, one by a large grinding stone and the other near the large table, stand inside a blue kitchen with walls covered with shelves and colourful yellow, orange, green and white pots and pans. The front and top of the case is glass that is attached to the brown painted wood walls with orange and brown adhesive paper.
Religious charm made from a picture of the 'Nino of Atocha' wrapped in plastic. The picture is pasted onto the centre of a red paper-covered rectangle of wood and a variety of large and small seeds and garlic cloves pasted onto the red border create a colourful frame in yellow, red, brown, black and white. Three gold coloured coins and two long brown seeds are stuck to a horse shoe wrapped in red ribbon that sits on top of the picture like an arch.
One-piece breastplate and apron of a Tungurahua style Corpus Christi dancer's costume is made of pieces of red material, sewn onto backing of scraps of beige, floral and green scraps, fringed with red wool, and bordered with a woven purple band that ends tied around the neck. Hand stitched into the red velvet, in different coloured wools, are floral motifs and the date "1964". In the centre of the chest area is tied a wooden cow, covered with silver foil and red/floral material to which are attached various beads and metal objects.
Rectangular Corpus Christi costume tail panel that hangs down the back. The central panel of light orange silk has flowers,birds, men on horseback, flames, crosses and emblems (one with the letters JHS) embroidered on in red, purple, brown and green, and is framed with consecutive borders of purple silk, silver foil, green and turquoise ribbons and, finally, a long fringe of pink wool. A purple ribbon drapes from the top and a small square mirror hangs at its centre. The entire top textile panel has been crudely sewn onto a paper and straw ? support covered with a piece of loosely woven green cloth.
Tungurahua-style Corpus Christi band made of an embroidered red silk panel sewn onto a burlap backing and then lined with red cotton cloth that wraps around to form a framing edge. Embroidered motifs are in blue, beige, yellow, purple, black, gold, turquoise and green wool and include flowers, birds, deer, horses, and men riding llamas,. Small silver discs of plastic have been sewn into the middle of the design and a border of wide strips of silver paper is attached to the sides.