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convex circular form, carved in high relief with a mask bearing a combination of human and hawk attributes; painted with red, yellow, green and black pigments; encircled by 14 abalone shell plaquettes in round and oval shapes

Frontlet, c. 1820

Tsimshian

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Spoon with round very clear transparent bowl and hollow handle with curved in four heads, three of which are free standing, the fourth forming the top of the handle. The three former have no mouths, the lowest and third have narrow points which may be beaks of the hawk. The second has a round flat nose. All have small ears, and eyes set with dark blue-green mother-of-pearl. The one at the top has a long face and may by the killer-whale.

Spoon, 19th century

Tsimshian or Tlingit

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Light horn used for bowl; darker horn used for carved handle; handle is curved and is carved with totem figures; shell inlay for eyes

Spoon, c. 1880

Tsimshian or Tlingit

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Dish made in form of an animal with dish set into his back. It seems to be a sea-monster with bear's head and killer-whales body. The bear's head is characterized by large mouth set with teeth, large round nose with sudden turn to forehead. On the side sof the dish are two pairs of flippers, or perhaps one pair of flippers and the whale's dorsal fin. The teeth are semi-cylindrical rods of bone, the joints of the flippers and the top of the dish rim are inset with ovals of bone, small white glass beads are set in the ends of the flippers, on the tail and around the dish rim. Eyes and nostrils inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

Dish, late 19th century

Tsimshian or Tlingit

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Dagger with double edged pointed blade with ridge down center bound onto carved wooden handle. The binding is of cord covered with cloth and a second binding of cord. The handle is carved with an animal head with ears on top, round nose with round nostril. Arms and Armor-Edged Weapon

Knife, 19th century

Tsimshian or Tlingit

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Round basket in a bandbox shape with cover. The technique is a combination of plain twined weaving (near base), crossed-warp twined (in center), and an alternating checker and twined (at rim). There are bands of false embroidery at the bottom, on the cover, and the rim of the cover. Materials are a foundation of spruce root, with false embroidery of grasses. Design consists of two bands of reversed T-bars in red and purple, and a spiral on the cover in white and two shades of red.

Basket, 19th-20th century

Tsimshian or Tlingit

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Shaman's Charm, Ivory with gold patination, N.Am.Ind.,Tsimshian or Tlingit,c.1860

Charm, 19th century

Tsimshian or Tlingit

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Human figure squatting and eating a frog the front half of whose body hangs from the man's mouth. The figure is broad, the back has a line where head and shoulders join, otherwise is unmodelled. late 19th century.

Charm, late 19th century

Tsimshian or Tlingit

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Spoon with rounded bowl and rather long handle carved with head of sea-monster, a personified snag. The mouth turns down, the round eyes are inlaid with mother of pearl as were origninally the three vertical grooves above the face; the forms around the eye turn down to follow the lines of the mouth. The nostrils may also have been inlaid.

Spoon, 19th century

Tsimshian or Tlingit

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Spoon with short handle carved in form of head of shark, eyes and teeth inalid with mother-of-pearl. Shark is known by his mouth with depressed corners, many teeth, elongated cone over his forehead with two circles and curved lines, round eyes. On this example the ears cover the entire top of the head above the eyebrows and the cone appears only above them.

Spoon, 19th century

Tsimshian or Tlingit

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