#Woodensday with the fantastic #BronzeAge roundhouse build at Flag Fen with its turf roof

#Fen

#Woodensday:
#Beaver-Shaped Bowl, c. 1890–1920
Native North America, NW Coast, Alaska, Tlingit?
Wood, 11.3 x 27 x 18.7 cm (4 7/16 x 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art 2009.434: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009.434
#NativeAmericanArt #FirstNationsArt #IndigenousArt

at St John's Church, Duxford - love the later ceiling details, in a church already filled with surviving wall paintings & many other features

#Woodensday

#woodensday is a little #suitcase, in #plywood.

For #Woodensday:
Kwakwaka'wakw artist
Baleen #Whale Mask, 19th c.
Alert Bay, Cormorant Island, BC, Canada
Cedarwood, pigment, hide, cotton cord, metal nails
From Brooklyn Museum’s “Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas” exhibition
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt

For #Woodensday:
Brackets with #Elephants and Riders
Western India (Gujarat), 18th century
Wood with pigment
@brooklynmuseum 1999.99.14, .15
#IndianArt #SouthAsianArt

Kerk Eenrum
#Woodensday

For #Woodensday:
Mokugyo "Fish" Drum
Japan, 19th c., wood/lacquer
on display at @pennmuseum
#FishInArt #JapaneseArt #MusicalInstruments
“The long hours of required meditation in Zen temples and monasteries were punctuated by chanting accompanied by striking the mokugyo (‘wooden fish’) percussion block. In the monastery, the block is placed on an ornamental cushion and is usually paired with a large metal bell.”

Twee houten kistjes uit de boedel van opa en oma.
#Woodensday

#Woodensday

Stellingmolen De Verwachting, Hollum, Ameland
#Woodensday

Stellingmolen De Verwachting, Hollum, Ameland
#Woodensday

For #WorldOtterDay + #Woodensday:
Top: wooden sea #otter effigy feast bowl, #Kwakiutl culture
Bottom: wooden bowl w/ sea otter at one end & human at other, #Haida culture
Both collected in 1897, now on display at the Field Museum in Chicago.
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt

From #Woodensday into #Feathersday:
Tä'üs (mayûri), India, c.1885
wood, parchment, metal, feathers
“The name of this bowed instrument means #peacock, the bird associated with the music goddess Saraswati. Popular at 19th c. courts, it derives its form from the dilruba, an instrument combining features of other Indian stringed instruments like the sarangi and the sitar.”
Metropolitan Musuem of Art collection

Stuk hardboard nodig voor onder de puzzel.
#Woodensday

For #Woodensday:
Mask, Yup'ik artist, Alaska, c. 1900
wood, pigment, vegetal fiber
@metmuseum
“Its bentwood hoop represents the border of the universe and encloses images of a humanoid spirit face, a #seal, a #fish, and a #loon - all within the grasp of a large human hand.”
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt

At the workshop last night I decided to use a hunk of discarded wood as an incredibly over the top vape holder for my partner (as it’s always falling over. The vape, not my partner). Hand planed some facets onto it and rubbed it down with beeswax. That’s about it. A very silly but useful project.
#woodworking #Woodensday

At the workshop last night I decided to use a hunk of discarded wood as an incredibly over the top vape holder for my partner (as it’s always falling over. The vape, not my partner). Hand planed some facets onto it and rubbed it down with beeswax. That’s about it. A very silly but useful project.
#woodworking #Woodensday

For #Woodensday:
#Bear mask, 1973-4
Boyd Owle (Eastern Band of #Cherokee, b. c. 1955), Cherokee, NC, USA
Wood, paint, metal wire
Smithsonian NMAI ollection
#NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

For #Woodensday: K'iche' #Maya #animal dance #masks:

#Jaguar, #Deer, #Bull, #Monkey - c. 1960, wood, pigment, hair, deer antler. @pennmuseum display. (1/2)

#Bull, #Coyote, #Boar x 2 - c. 1960-80, wood, pigment, hair, deer antler. @pennmuseum display. (2/2)

#IndigenousArt