Lifeline

Shan Goshorn

2017

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Large spruce root basket; folded; weave is tighter at the top; two thong handles. Inside are some fragments of cedar bark basket.
Silver hoop with spiral grooves at ends
String of 41 shell beads
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.