Masks

Aisa Tuluga, Native American

1962

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Spruce root basket of cylindrical shape. Most of the weaving is alternate plaiting and twining. A 3/4" band at the top is twined. Somewhat broken. No lugs though lugs have been on at an earlier time.
Abstract composition in shades of brown, ivory, and green, has multiple rectangular forms juxtaposed with black linear outlines of a felled tree, a vessel, a canoe, a wheel, an animal head, and other forms.
Rug (Two Gray Hills style), Diné (Navajo) people, Southwestern Region, Native American, wool
Vertical woven paper basket with round mouth and square bottom, in Cherokee water pattern; paper dyed shades of blue, lavender, and black. Photograph of Tuckasegee River in central band; text written on paper weaving strips drawn from David Archambault's speech to United Nations in response to Dakota Access Pipeline on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.