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E2545-08A - Painted Wood PlaqueBack

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Description

Illustration on a wood plaque, created by incising lines into the surface and then adding red and black pigments, probably ochre and charcoal. The drawing appears to portray a bird with antlers. In front of the bird is a shape that may represent a snare. Roderick MacFarlane, who acquired this item for the Smithsonian Institution, remarked in an article he later wrote on ‘Land and Sea Birds Nesting Within the Arctic Circle in the lower Mackenzie River District' that a female golden eagle he collected for the Smithsonian Institution had been 'snared upon her nest'.

  • Collection: Macfarlane Collection
  • Catalogue Number: E2545-08A
  • Object Type: graphic art
  • Materials: wood, ochre, charcoal
  • Manufacturing Techniques: staining, incising
  • Tags: art

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