Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
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Hollow, light gray clay oval head on short neck is painted light yellowish brown with dark brown hair, beard, facial tattoo and outlines around eyes, mouth, and pinched ears and eyebrows. Oval openings have been cut into eyes and mouth.
Jar in the shape of a bird sitting on a high nest is made of glazed white clay painted with reddish brown and black linear designs and diamond, square and octagon shapes. Tail of bird is the circular opening to the vessel.
Sculpture carved in polished greenish black stone, depicting a creation story of Raven the Creator pulling man from a seedpod. Flat base area of sculpture is unpolished gray.
White blouse that is part of a Cantonese opera costume with objects 1743/1 b,c,d,e,f,g. The blouse has a round neck and long wide sleeves with open attached piece at each end. Sequin design sewn on front and back of bodice and blouse in gold, pink and turquoise. The back opening closes with seven snaps.
Carp-shaped windsock, decorated in bright colours and gold paint. The mouth of the fish serves as the mouth of the fabric tube, with an internal (wooden?) structure holding the opening in a circle. The bright fish design covers most of the outside; the predominant colours are blue, black and gold.
Large, pear-shaped, hand made and hand painted, orange clay owl has small bowl-like object attached to its chest and a painted red base. Large brownish black scallop feathers are roughly scattered over a grayish beige body, becoming wavy lines and short curls around the stubby black ears. Large orange eyes are recessed with dark bulging pupils and the hooked beak is like an open pincer.
Rectangular bentwood box with lid (part b). There are Northwest Coast designs painted on the chest panels, but only traces of the imagery are visible beneath the overall darkened surface. Lid is unpainted.
Miniature, egg-shaped white clay owl, with no appendages, has hand painted body details in black and orange over a white background. Long overlapping feathers cover all of body except for small face area at top front. Painted vertical beak sits between orange eyes with large dark pupils are encircled with dot eyelashes. There is a hole in the base.
Double-ikat rumal. Dark reddish purple, pink and black cloth. Long rectangular area in the centre has images of phonographs, biplanes, sailboats, fish and rotary phones woven into it, in squares.
Small, twisted fibre bag (bilum) in a slightly trapezoidal shape with woven strap handle attached to ends of the slit opening. The body of the bag is detailed in the middle with an interlocking wave pattern in pink and green against the natural beige background.