Drawing Item Number: 3602/6 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Drawing reconstruction of a plank from a Tsimshian house-front screen in horizontal orientation, drawn in pencil and maroon pencil crayon (part a). Drawing is of the upper half of a raven's mouth and beak, and lower half of their eye; formline design elements throughout interior. Rectangle-like outline, with an angled right side, overtop drawing, imitating house plank drawing is based off of. Title and artist signature written along left edge of drawing. Part b is a related tracing of part of the drawing; tracing itself is shaped like a cuff-style bracelet. It depicts the same design as the drawing, but with additions to the raven's eye and beak. The tracing film is rectangular with an uneven bottom edge.
Drawing (part a) is based on a plank from a Tsimshian village site near the mouth of the Skeena River, collected by Marius Barbeau in 1915. Lyle Wilson consulted infrared photographs of boards to reconstruct their visible components, using coloured pencil on mylar. 3602/3 was created from several other reconstructions (3602/4 - 6 a) to illustrate how the fragments may have formed part of a screen; the tracing (part b) is based on the part a plank reconstruction. [See 'The Transforming Image' (2022), Page 74, Fig. 3.11.]