Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
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Vertically rectangular multicoloured print depicting a furrier's workshop in which two men and three women sit cross-legged or kneel while working. The man in the centre is cutting from a pattern, one woman is threading a needle, another is hand-sewing a cape-like textile, a child is sitting in the lap of another. above them hangs a rack of various articles of clothing - socks, gloves, robes, ties.
Model of an outrigger canoe. The canoe has one lateral support float known as an outrigger which fastens to one side of the main hull, usally the port side. The outrigger has five spars or poles that attach it to the canoe by lashing. The sail is triangular in shape and woven from bark. Canoe (part a); six carved paddles (b-g).
Finial derivation. Tall, carved dark wood finial composed of a tower of figures, standing or sitting one atop the other: two males and a female topped by a bird with large curved beak. All are painted red, yellow and white in parts. The two front facing figures wear grass skirts and the back facing figure, with a fish on his back, holds a snake. The bottom figure wears a snake mask, the other two figures have painted face decoration. All figures have shell eyes and wear woven fibre adornment at ear, nose, neck, wrist and/or ankle. Artist signature is painted in white around base.
Outer boots (also see boots a-b, and inner boots c-d and e-f) that have skin soles and uppers. Bands of purple ribbon are sewn around the ankle and the top of the upper. Each has a fabric cuff with orange and black wool drawstring that threads through loops of skin on the sides of boots a-b, and ties at the front of the ankle.
Inner boots (also see boots a-b, inner boots c-d, and outer boots g-h) that are a pair of tall inner boots made from off-white wool with a folded cuff that has a floral design in green, yellow, and blue and an x design border in pink and black. The seams are stitched with blue and teal thread.
Inner boots (also see boots a-b, inner boots e-f, and outer boots g-h) that are made from off-white wool with yellow stitching along the top edges; brown stitching is at the seam between the upper and the sole as well as at the back; white stitching joins pieces of the wool together.
Rectangular white paper with three embedded maple leaves.
Rectangular white paper with three embedded maple leaves.
Rectangular white paper. Pieces of paper material are visible throughout.
Brown string bag (bilum) with coloured yarn stripes. The stripes are woven through the body and continue up into the handles. The handles are two long pieces extending upwards from each side, but were once tied at the ends.