Carving
29-175-461
From: Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-461 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Kwakiutl |
| Provenience | Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Iconography | Bird |
| Description | Bird carving. Post-shaped. Eyes and hooked beak painted green. Flat top to head, protruding fore-head ridge. Head and trunk have traces of white except near base where carving seems unfinished and in back and part of one side where pieces of wood have been split off. The other side of figure has long U-shaped section cut-off. The base is very slanting and uneven. (Either detached from another section or unfinished.) |
| Length | 83.5 cm |
| Width | 30 cm |
| Depth | 25 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 6/8719 - Collector Number |
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