Rug

Diné (Navajo) people, Southwestern Region, Native American

  • Titles Rug (Descriptive)
  • Medium wool
  • Dimensions 67 x 41 in. (170.2 x 104.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Bequest of Coleman Cooper, Palm Beach, Florida, 1986.870
  • Work Type rug
  • Classification Rugs

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Made of red flannel trimmed in black with a bird and a floral design done in white opal yellow, navy blue, blue, light blue metallic gold, dark green and yellow green and myrtle green; brown beads of small size; the bird is in now wise symmetrical, wings sprawled out, feet to one side and head twisted to the other; there is a heart in beads on the breast.
Spoon, Tlingit people, Klukwan, Alaska, Northwest Coast, Native American, wood
Large clay jar of bulbous shape with long neck, incised around the body with a ring of six stylized skulls in profile separated by circles, with fire clouds and orange-pink discoloration from the original open firing and extensive use as a cooking vessel, the interior especially sooted from use, the lip around the top with small, incised tick marks typical of Gulf Coast native pottery.
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.