Bean, Augustus (maker). This is an open, shallow wooden dish with two frogs (as seen from above) on the bottom of bowl. Ten pieces of bone or ivory are inset around the top rim; round white seed beads are inset around the inner second rim, which...
Bean, Augustus (maker). This is an open, shallow wooden dish with two frogs (as seen from above) on the bottom of bowl. Ten pieces of bone or ivory are inset around the top rim; round white seed beads are inset around the inner second rim, which...
Description: wood; mountain goat wool; painted Old Num: acc. 424a Descriptive Narrative: Wooden grease dish in the form of a floating bird ( crested auklet ?, puffin ?) with the cavity in the back; wings folded against the sides; head...
Dining room, possibly in the Holland house in Seward, Alaska. Furniture includes round table, chair, and side table with chafing dish. ca. 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3 11/16" x 4 7/8".
Made: Kuskokwim
Description: wood; carved; painted
Descriptive Narrative: A wooden dish carved of one piece with red painted rim. The center is natural wood color with a deer painted in black in the center. He has a human face with a...
Military personnel gather around kitchen area of steaming cooking pots and dish pans; behind them is a shelter assembled from wing surfaces of wrecked Japanese planes
Side view of antenna dish at White Alice Communications site on Resolution Island, Nunavut, Canada. The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force telecommunication link system constructed in Alaska and parts of Canada...
The dish has a wooden rim, and it is bent and lashed in two places with root. The new bottom has been made and glued in; a small baleen whale is glued in middle of dish and the handle is a high loop of baleen lashed to sides of dish with baleen;...
The dish is made of two pieces of wood used for the bottom and the rim. The bottom is stained light red and the rim is dark red. A black line is painted around the bottom of the bowl, as are two figures. Six small round pieces of ivory are set on...
The dish is made of two pieces of wood used for the bottom and the rim. The bottom is stained light red and the rim is dark red. A black line is painted around the bottom of the bowl, as are two figures. Six small round pieces of ivory are set on...
The drum's wooden rim is one piece, fastened with root where the handle joins the gut skin with a picture of a man in a kayak, a bird and a harpooned seal in a trap or net, all done in black with red line under the kayak and across the drum skin....
The drum's wooden rim is one piece, fastened with root where the handle joins the gut skin with a picture of a man in a kayak, a bird and a harpooned seal in a trap or net, all done in black with red line under the kayak and across the drum skin....
This dish is one piece of wood (16 in. across, 19 in. long, 9 in. deep at the sides) and the rim has shells set around the edge, 13 others are missing. The ends have totemic carvings on them.¬ulture: Tlingit