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TWO HAIDA CARVED ARGILLITE SCULPTURES
the first, a pipe fragment, of openwork form, carved in the round with four stippled figures, possibly from the Wasco myth, including a child-like figure with naturalistic facial features and frog-like body forming the prow, its full jaw held in the hands of a wolf or a bear, slightly reclining against the back of an amphibious creature supported by a dorsal fin, with bird wings at its sides, each with formline details, and whale's tail curving upward, fluke in its mouth, juxtaposed to a bear, with wide dentated mouth, the teeth drilled through at top; the second, of thick rectangular section, carved in relief, each side with a horizontal human figure and two humanoid faces, surmounted by a seated human with a frog between its feet, flanked on one side by an unidentified creature, perhaps a land or sea mammal, with bird wings, and on the other by a kneeling human (fragment)
Lengths: the first, 7¾ in. (19.8 cm.); the second, 6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) (2)
the first, a pipe fragment, of openwork form, carved in the round with four stippled figures, possibly from the Wasco myth, including a child-like figure with naturalistic facial features and frog-like body forming the prow, its full jaw held in the hands of a wolf or a bear, slightly reclining against the back of an amphibious creature supported by a dorsal fin, with bird wings at its sides, each with formline details, and whale's tail curving upward, fluke in its mouth, juxtaposed to a bear, with wide dentated mouth, the teeth drilled through at top; the second, of thick rectangular section, carved in relief, each side with a horizontal human figure and two humanoid faces, surmounted by a seated human with a frog between its feet, flanked on one side by an unidentified creature, perhaps a land or sea mammal, with bird wings, and on the other by a kneeling human (fragment)
Lengths: the first, 7¾ in. (19.8 cm.); the second, 6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) (2)