The Collection at the BMA

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La boisson chaude (The Hot Drink), Christophe Huet, oil on canvas

La boisson chaude (The Hot Drink)

Eunuch on Horseback, from a Tomb Figure Procession

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Raven Tells His Story in the Fog

Vertical monoprint in shades of blue and purple depicts black and white photographic images of man with two women superimposed on whale fin with hole at top.

Grandma; We Who Are Your Children

Rattle in shape of a raven, carrying on its back a reclining figure with bent knees and extended tongue; human figure is joined by his tongue to a frog, which is held in the beak of a kingfisher bird, whose head is depicted (without a body) and located closest to the handle of the rattle. The underside of the rattle (the raven's belly) has the abstracted features of a human face.

Raven Rattle

Crudely made, several strands of red-dyed bark produce colored bands. Hole in the bottom.

Basket

  • Tlingit people, Wrangell, Alaska, Northwest Coast, Native American
  • cedar bark

Awl

  • Tlingit people, Klukwan, Alaska, Northwest Coast, Native American
  • iron, wood

Crown

A pair of silver earrings, blossom design with six fluted ovate part with a six petaled top loosely attached and a four petaled bottom soldered on

Pair of Earrings

  • Tlingit people, Alaska, Native American
  • silver

Spoon

  • Probably Tlingit people, Northwest Coast, Native American
  • goat horn
Chilkat Blanket Warp Bag, Chilkat sub-group, Tlingit people, Klukwan, Alaska, Northwest Coast, Native American, grizzly bear bladder, commercial cloth, buckskin neck, thread, buckskin point

Chilkat Blanket Warp Bag

Basket

  • Tlingit people, Klukwan, Alaska, Native American, Northwest Coast
  • spruce root