Palette

About 1300

  • Titles Palette (Descriptive)
  • Medium stone
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Philip C. Jackson, Jr., 1974.10
  • Work Type palette
  • Classification Containers

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Glossy blackware bowl with Avanyu (water serpent) in raised relief within deeply carved recessed band around bowl; tongue of water serpent in shape of zig-zag terminating in arrow. Areas of the recessed band around Avanyu in matte black.
Old. Ragged edge. Top plain twisted.
Artist-manipulated digitally reproduced photograph by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell; subject is Peelatchiwaaxpáash / Medicine Crow (Raven) seated, full figure, three-quarter view; elements of regalia outlined in red, and text annotations in red radiate from figure.
The blade is a piece of a file 5.25 inches long, curved edge 1.938" wide. This is attached to a handle of alder? cut from a tree about 1.5" diameter with a limb .75 inches in diameter. 11.5b. which serves as a handle. The blade was wrapped in blue and white gingham and lashed with Niblick. Fig 94. cotton fish cord.