Donor: Alaska Commercial Company / Loans: S1988-1989 #8: Art Gallery (Sonoma State Univ.) (September 7, 1988–October 25, 1988) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Baton, accession number 2-4627, described as Representing killer whale head and dorsal fin (hole in middle of baton represents blow hole of whale), made of red cedar, decorated with hair of deceased relative (kept as a memento), painted red, blue, and black. This is a comparatively small baton.

Hearst Museum object titled Board, accession number 2-4781, described as Painted board.

Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-33830, described as Carved cedar box; sixk' (six = box, k' = "small"); steamed and bent. The design represents a killer whale. Ceremonial dish, lined with skunk cabbage leaves, to contain valuable oil or some other valuable material. Used at totem pole erections and at burials. (Charles Brown, 1964)

Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-4605, described as Carved seal club representing a water monster; yellow cedar.

Hearst Museum object titled Helmet, accession number 2-4771, described as Probably representing a sea lion; carved wood painted black, red and blue. Perforations at sides of snout formerly held whiskers.

Hearst Museum object titled Human effigy, accession number 2-4790, described as Wooden carving of a man wearing wolf headdress, standing on grizzly bear head; cedar; painted red, blue, and black. "From Alaska" painted inside base; "May 1877" pencilled inside base. Identification of wood type and animals by Charles Brown.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-5856, described as Hooked nose, alder wood painted blue, black, and red. Represents a hawk (fide Vera Mae Fredrickson).

Hearst Museum object titled Rattle, accession number 2-4620, described as Carved, painted red, blue and black. Shape is a raven with a hawk head on the undeside and a figure probably representing a shaman on the back (fide Vera Mae Fredrickson). Raven's "ears" connect with head of human figure (fide Charles Brown).