Bracelet : 2004.19.003

Collection:

Juneau—Douglas City Museum

Object ID:

2004.19.003

Accession#:

2004.19

Credit Line:

Museum Purchase.

Object Name:

Bracelet

Title:

Cuff—Style Carved Silver Bracelet of Double / Split Bird

Artist — Creator:

Williams, Tom

Description:

Cuff—style carved silver bracelet of uneven width, slightly crowned, ends taper slightly and softly squared off. Design of two birds (possibly one split bird) profile heads facing away from each other, bulbous curved beaks, knobs on top of ear forms, arrows for tongues with wing of tail forms lining up behind and leg / claw from below. Carving is light. Artist uses considerable non—formline designs, legs have dot decoration, background crosshatched in tall narrow diamond shapes. Engraved on back: "Tom Wms".

Notes:

See 2004.19.001.
Pawn shop called bracelet "double eagle" but it could be Kolus, Kadju, Thunderbird or other supernatural bird.

Search Terms:

Fine Arts
Metal
Personal belonging
Jewelry
Ethnographic
Tlingit

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Cuff-Style Carved Silver Brace

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