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Offering for the Pachamama - cult object made of stone - farm with animals and agricultural crops - private collection Lima - 1977
Art in the desert Natural rock sculpture between Djanet and the cliffs south of Tassili. Algeria - South Tassili - 1993
The Haida myth retold finds its most beautiful visual expression in this 2m- (6.6 feet) high sculpture in white cedar created by artist Bill Reid for the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. Dedication festivities for this masterpiece were held in 1980.
This photograph of a section of one of the four house posts that supported the roof beams of the eagle's nest house in Sitka shows the legendary young eagle who helped a girl to survive after an epidemic had killed her clan. The girl later became the ancestor of the Kaagwaantaan clan, which made the four 200-year-old house posts available to the Sitka National Historical Park on a long-term loan.
The back wall inside the house is painted in a design based on a Chilkat blanket. The two house posts carved with killer whales and, on the right, with cuttlefish, are copies of old, decayed posts. They were added in 1985 and dedicated by means of a potlatch
On another house post in the bear clan house in Wrangell, a large anthropomorphic bear appears to be protecting the figure of a human being, while a frog peers out of its mouth.
A wooden shaman figure with human hair, earrings made of animal teeth and a leather apron. The figure, which represents a shaman singing and shaking rattles, is assumed to have been carved by a Tlingit shaman more than 100 years ago. (30 cm, SJM)SJM = Sheldon Jackson Museum, Sitka
In 1972 Bill Reid created this silver killer whale on an argillite stand, copying his own 1970 masterpiece, which he had worked in gold for the traveling exhibit «The Legacy». The shape was created by means of the «lost-wax» method. (6 cm, NMM)NMM = National Museum of Man, Ottawa
Offering for the Pachamama - Father, mother and two children - Cult object made of stone - Bolivia - 1977
Offering for the Pachamama - Hand - Length 10 cm - Private collection Lima - 1977
A head in the ruins of Copán. This site, significant for Maya archaeology, is located in the mountainous west of Honduras, in the middle of the tropical forest, not far from the border with Guatemala. - 1977
A head with a round mouth in the ruins of Copán. This site, significant for Maya archaeology, is located in the mountainous west of Honduras, in the middle of the tropical forest, not far from the border with Guatemala. - 1977
