Beschreibung:

Northwest Coast Polychromed Wood Shaman's Rattle of classic form, carved in two sections, with a slender handle of oval section divided into interlocking panels and bound with organic twine, a stylized totemic face, possibly a representation of a hawk, incised and carved in shallow relief on the underbelly, the upper section carved as a bird in flight, with a rectangular implement in its open, slightly curving beak, the outspread wings supporting a shaman figure in a reclining position, with the weight of his body supported by his elbows, his body thrust upward and head arched back and resting on carrier's ears, his long tongue projecting into the mouth of a frog held in the beak of a kingfisher bird, with backswept feather crest; decorated with formline details in shallow and sunk relief, and black, white and vermillion red pigments. length 15 3/4 in.