art_history_animalia, 11 days ago to random

For #WorldOtterDay :
Christian Morrisseau (Anishinaabe, 1969-2022)
#Otter Family, 2005
acrylic on canvas, 93.5 x 121.9 cm (36.79 ins x 48 in)
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/OTTER-FAMILY/0DF90C78588179DD
#FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

art_history_animalia, 23 days ago to random

#FrogFriday :
Reg Davidson (Haida, b.1954)
#Frogs, 1994
silkscreen, 22 x 27 in.
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Frogs/131A9F84E61CCF2BEF273DA3DD9804E8
#FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

art_history_animalia, 4 months ago to random

#WoodpeckerWednesday:
#Woodpecker, 1974
Art Thompson (Canadian, Ditidaht, Nuu-Chah-Nulth, 1948-2003)
serigraph, 58.5 x 44.4 cm
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 1998.035.024: https://aggv.ca/emuseum/objects/15671/woodpecker
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt #BirdsInArt

art_history_animalia, 5 months ago to random

For #Woodensday:
#Seal figure by Melvin Olanna, 1968
Inupiat Eskimo, Shishmaref, Alaska, USA
Yellow cedar wood, L 32 x W 18.5 x H 20.5 cm
25/6106 Indian Arts & Crafts Board Collection, DOI, at Smithsonian NMAI
#NativeAmericanArt #FirstNationsArt #IndigenousArt

photo of the virtual label from information monitor at museum- text transcribed in post

art_history_animalia, 8 months ago to octopus

It's #OCTOber #OctopusDay🐙and I'm awestruck by this incredible #octopus platter! Traditional #Haida carved argillite, late 19th c., from Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, Canada). 3 x 20 x 29.6 cm. Anchorage Museum 1977.008.001: http://onlinecollections.anchoragemuseum.org/uploaded_files/1977-008-001-2.jpg
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt #PacificNWCoastArt

art_history_animalia, 8 months ago to random

#FrogFriday: tadpole bowls!
Sikyatki Ware bowls w/tadpole motifs
Ancestral Pueblo, Arizona, 1400-1625CE
The Met
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/626783
Penn Museum
https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/150569

While #frog iconography can be found in many world cultures, the Southwest Culture Area is one of the few I've found where tadpoles also regularly appear. I'll be featuring these pieces in my presentation on frog iconography in the Pacific NW & American SW at SECAC next week!
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt #FirstNationsArt

Bowl Southwest Culture Area, Protohistoric Hopi, Arizona Date Made: 1400-1625 CE (date collected: 1901) Materials: Clay Technique: Sikyatki Bichrome Height: 11 cm Outside Diameter: 25.2 cm Description: Sikyatki Bichrome Black-on-Yellow Ware Bowl, curved sides, rounded base, slightly everted rim. Exterior decorated with cross-hatching elements, interior decorated with tadpole elements. (official museum photo of object; not currently on display)

art_history_animalia, 8 months ago to random

#Woodensday:
#frog dish
Heiltsuk (NW Coast, BC, Canada)
collected 1927
painted wood 10.2x15.2x24.1cm
http://collection-online.moa.ubc.ca/search/item?keywords=Wood+frog&row=43
Frogs are commonly encountered in NW Coast art. Can symbolize transformation, rebirth & renewal, communication & sharing of knowledge, stability, abundance, and prosperity & good luck; also important spirit helpers to shamans because of their ability to traverse between two worlds.
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt

view 2 right facing side profile
view 3 left facing top down profile

art_history_animalia, 9 months ago to random

#FrogFriday:
2 beaded #frog figure pendants by Emma Marks, #Tlingit culture (Juneau, Alaska, USA)
collected 1973-4
glass beads, thread, felt backing, suede backing & strap
8.2 x 6.7 x 0.5 cm (3 1/4 x 2 5/8 x 3/16 in.)
6.8 x 8.8 x 0.7 cm (2 11/16 x 3 7/16 x 1/4 in.)
Harvard Peabody Museum 974-12-10/52237A, 974-12-10/52237C
https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/580711
https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/433066
#FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

museum photo of beaded frog pendant #2 green, light blue, red, white, black, white, orange, yellow, with dark brown strap

art_history_animalia, 9 months ago to random

For #Woodensday:
Wooden totemic figure of a #frog
#Tlingit, Sitka, Alaska
collected 1871
Painted wood, L 20.2 cm
Yale Peabody Museum YPM ANT 005640:
https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-ANT-005640
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericnArt

Official museum photo of the frog figure, side profile on black background Wood carving with painted red, black, green details

art_history_animalia, 10 months ago to random

For when #OwlAwarenessDay falls on #FrogFriday (and #FabricFriday):
Button blanket with #owls & #frogs
c. late 19th - early 20th c.
Gitxsan culture (British Columbia, Canada)
wool, cotton, shell, graphite
130 cm x 188.5 cm
UBC Museum of Anthropology 3051/7: http://collection-online.moa.ubc.ca/search/item?keywords=Gitxsan+button+blanket&row=0

#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt

art_history_animalia, 10 months ago to random

#Woodensday:
#Beaver-Shaped Bowl, c. 1890–1920
Native North America, NW Coast, Alaska, Tlingit?
Wood, 11.3 x 27 x 18.7 cm (4 7/16 x 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art 2009.434: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009.434
#NativeAmericanArt #FirstNationsArt #IndigenousArt

official museum photo of the the beaver bowl on grey background, view 2
official museum photo of the the beaver bowl on grey background, view 3

art_history_animalia, 10 months ago to random

For #WorldOrcaDay here are 2 examples of #orca (aka killer whale) headdresses from the Northwest Coast that the dancer could animate with moving parts:
1 Haida - “dancer could roll its eyes or move lower jaw”
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
2 Kwakiutl - “dancer pulled strings to make the pectoral fins, tail flukes & jaw move”
Field Museum
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt #FirstNationsArt

Killer Whale Headdress. The dancer pulled strings to make the pectoral fins, tail flukes and jaw move. Used in the Tlásulá. Kwakiutl (Fort Rupert). 19271 Field Museum