Object class: Sculpture (visual works) / Loans: S1966-1967 #77: Physical Education Department (UC Berkeley) (March 9, 1967–March 9, 1967) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-19085, described as Argillite carving with totemic figures. Early/old. Long hollowed split U-forms; extended, thin feathers, hands have bars. Broken head from 2-19085, classic shape of the "Master of Four," fide Carol Sheehan, May 5, 1980.

Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 2-4646, described as Carved raven dish ornamented with snail opercula on rim. Red cedar, oil impregnated. Identification of wood type and bird species by Charles Brown (Tlingit) June 1964. Vera Mae Fredrickson says bird (with projecting wings and tail) is eagle.

Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 2-15545, described as Wood carving; kneeling man in kilt, killing [new interpretation is that this genre shows a man torturing a witch] (by twisting hair) a crouching female slave (?) in skirt; painted: pink skin; red lips; brown hair and eyes; grey-green clothes; wood cracked

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 Totemic carving, accession number 2-19099, described as Bear leg bone (identified by Charles Brown). Open mouth at both ends, represents wolf or bear, faces inside eyes, knees, etc. are meant to accentuate power of seeing, etc. Identified as bone by Dr. Benson, Zoology, January 1959.

Hearst Museum object titled Totem pole, accession number 2-15541, described as Carved, painted. Figures top and bottom: wolf, beaver with 5 potlatch rings on head, grizzly bear holding upside-down human figure; grizzly bear: painted red-brown, green, black, blue, orange, white. Back hollowed out like old house posts. Animal figures identified by Charles Brown June 1964.

Hearst Museum object titled Totem pole model, accession number 2-14267, described as Bottom figures: frog and raven (with small copper in beak); yellow cedar painted red-brown and black. (Identification of frog and raven and yellow cedar by Charles Brown (Tlingit Indian), June 1964)