Drawing

About this object

History of use

Record of jewellery design.

Cultural context

contemporary art

Physical description

Small, rectangular piece of heavy paper folded and taped at side on left, contains an oval ink drawing on transparent paper. Drawing: profile eagle on the back of a killer whale; eagle has head turned to side on left; open short curved beak; on the body is a partial ovoid face with a circular pupil, curled nostril joins lip band, bared teeth, u and ovoids on wing and tail. Whale has open mouth with bared triangular teeth; spine and ribs on body; dorsal fin partially obscured by eagle; u and ovoids on pectoral fin and tail flukes. Pencil crosshatched lines around figures on a black ground.