Bentwood Boxes
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Raven & Eagle Bentwood Box
Joseph Campbell
$490.00 CADRed Cedar wood, Yellow Cedar wood, Acrylic paint
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‘The Power of Transformation’ Bentwood Box
Margaret August
SOLDRed Cedar wood, Yellow Cedar wood, Acrylic Paint
“The Power of Transformation” Bentwood Box is a precisely painted masterwork inspired by an artifact in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography’s collection at Harvard University. The artifact is a wooden comb from the early 1800’s, featuring a Frog motif on one side and a Double-Headed Serpent motif on the other. It was carved by a Coast Salish individual. Margaret wanted to create a contemporary take on the original artist’s style using the Serpent design. As with many of Margaret’s pieces, the figures are painted reflectively, with one side of the design mirroring the side opposite to it.
The Double-Headed Serpent is a supernatural figure associated with wealth, power, rebirth, and transformation. The most well-known version of this creature is the Sisiutl from Kwakwaka’wakw legend, but many coastal First Nations have their own variations of the figure as well.
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Maxinuxw (Killerwhale) Bentwood Box
Kevin Daniel Cranmer
$4,700.00 CADRed Cedar wood, Yellow Cedar wood, Abalone shell, Acrylic paint
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Killerwhale Bentwood Box
Trevor Angus
$1,325.00 CADRed Cedar wood, Yellow Cedar wood, Acrylic paint
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Resilience Canoe Bentwood Box
Bruce Alfred
$7,900.00 CADRed Cedar wood, Leather cord, Acrylic paint
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Hummingbird Bentwood Box
Joseph Campbell
$490.00 CADRed Cedar wood, Yellow Cedar wood, Acrylic paint
Specific and unique to the Northwest Coast People is the bentwood or bent-corner box or container. A most outstanding item of the First Nations people, it is a made from one single plank of wood through a lengthy steaming process – a method strictly adapted by the coastal peoples.
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Eagle Bentwood Box
Joseph Campbell
$1,075.00 CADRed Cedar wood, Yellow Cedar wood, Acrylic paint
Specific and unique to the Northwest Coast People is the bentwood or bent-corner box or container. A most outstanding item of the First Nations people, it is a made from one single plank of wood through a lengthy steaming process – a method strictly adapted by the coastal peoples.
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Hummingbird Bentwood Box
Joseph Campbell
$1,075.00 CADRed Cedar wood, Yellow Cedar wood, Acrylic paint
Specific and unique to the Northwest Coast People is the bentwood or bent-corner box or container. A most outstanding item of the First Nations people, it is a made from one single plank of wood through a lengthy steaming process – a method strictly adapted by the coastal peoples.
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Maxinukw (Killerwhale), Kwagulth Gwawina (Raven) & Ancestor Bentwood Box
Kevin Daniel Cranmer
$4,200.00 CADRed Cedar wood, Acrylic paint
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C’ixwatin (Eagle) Canoe Bentwood Box
Moy Sutherland
$31,000.00 CADRed Cedar wood, Abalone shell, Operculum shell, Acrylic paint
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