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Plaque2010-37/8
Plaque2010-37/7
Lidded Box2010-37/4

The paint is red and black.

Culture
American
Material
wood, paint and stain
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Bentwood Bowl2944/1

Small carved bentwood dish, unpainted. All four side bulge outward and are carved with somewhat three-dimensional faces on two sides. "DCranmer 72" inscribed in base.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and stain
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bailer ?2895/1

Long, rectangular, scoop-shaped utensil, possibly a canoe bailer, carved from a single piece of wood. Unpainted and undecorated, with a squared hollow carved out of the centre making three short upright walls with one end open. Old nail holes can be seen along the edges of the open end. The object is slightly curved with a rounded base.

Culture
Haida
Material
cedar wood ? and stain
Made in
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Chair (tsem-pai-yau-nai)04.297.5130

Stewart Culin collected this side chair in Zuni Pueblo in 1904, calling it an “Ancient kneeling chair." The chair is pieced together from 11 planks and 4 square posts. Its ornamentation is limited to horizontal grooves and soft scalloping on the lower rails. The crest rail displays a series of peaks along its upper edge, apparently cut across previously inscribed horizontal lines. Below the lines is a series of irregularly, squarish gouge holes. The rear stiles' finials are stepped, and their top set-back shows a rough area where a segment may have broken off. The front stiles show grooving and exposed top ends that may have been covered by a forward seat plank. Nails secure the seat planks to the frame, but rails and stiles are joined with open mortise-and-tendon joints. Although Culin interpreted the stepped finials as Indian cloud forms In Spain, Islamic, North African stepped designs were also common forms. Other Hispanic traits include the mortis-and-joint construction and rectangular forming of its members and the use of staining. It has been suggested that it also demonstrates European proportions: about 2/3 vara by 1/2 vara (Spanish yard). If the finials had not broken off it would resemble the scrolled rear stiles of modest Spanish renaissance chairs. Scholar Ramon Gutierrez raises questions regarding its meaning to Pueblo culture. He argues that Franciscans studied and manipulated Pueblo society to establish Christian authority and values and therefore the chair may represent an effort to impose Catholic-Spanish culture on the part of an unwilling native maker. If "always offered" to a guest of Euro-culture the chair may have meant respect for or control of that visitor, depending on the social, political, and gender status of both host and guest within Pueblo culture in the 1800s.

Culture
She-we-na
Material
wood, stain and iron nail
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Headdress2010-37/51
Bowl2800/1

Long wooden dish or bowl carved in design of a curved halibut fish. Stained brown wood; small central bowl area with both fish ends curving upward.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and stain
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure2790/24

Thin, elongated, blackened figure wearing a stack of brass neck rings. The bent arms are close to the body and there is a hole through the raised hands. The small square base is made from a different type of wood.

Culture
East African
Material
stain, wood and metal
Made in
East Africa, Africa
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Seal Bowl2004-92/133