#pacific grove
Woven fabric
Camelid hair fiber, vegetable dyes
Nazca manufacture, Southern Peru, circa 100 BCE - 600 CE
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Trilobite (Elrathia kingii) fossil
Millard County, Utah, Middle Cambrian period
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“Buteo Vulgaris”, William Swainson, circa 1831
Hand-colored engraving from “Fauna Boreali-Americana” published 1835
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Twined basket
Pine root, maidenhair fern, bear grass leaf
Unknown Achomawi artisan, Northern Central California, early to mid 20th century
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Photographic print, William F. Bryan, 1973
From a set of 33 sea otter “portraits”
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Flagstaff Red style cooking bowl
Unslipped clay
Tuzigoot manufacture, Northern Arizona, 1100-1300 CE
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Fishing hook
Bone, iron nail, lead, sinew
Age and manufacture unknown, Northern Alaska
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Abalone blister pearl
Monterey Bay, early 20th century
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Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena)
Live-mount by unknown preparator
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Scraper
Abalone shell
Excavated from Shell Midden in Pacific Grove, CA, circa 1400 CE
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Trench Knife
Steel, brass, wood
Watervliet Arsenal, Buffalo, New York, circa 1863
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“Crotophaga Rugirostra”, William Swainson, 1831
Hand-colored engraving from “Fauna Boreali-Americana”, 1835
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Goethite (”Grape Iron”)
Iron Hydroxide, FeO(OH)
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Axe
Steel, wood
Unknown Balbalasang artisan, Northern Luzon, Philippines, late 19th to early 20th century
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Photographic print, Dames & Butler Photography, 1881
“Studio portrait of girl, Henrietta May Street, who was born on October 6, 1876. C.K. Tuttle’s niece. Dames & Butler artist’s palette with feathers logo on back of cabinet card.”
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“Camass” (Camassia quamash), Winifred G. Stewart, circa 1935
Watercolor and pencil on paper
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Glass-plate negative, C.K. Tuttle, 1900
“Tuttle’s negative sleeve calls this “Saw Mill Gulch Bridge.” Clark’s Monterey County Place Names locates Sawmill Gutch in the Del Monte Forest, heading near Huckleberry Hill, and near the area once covered by Lake Majella, near Spanish Bay.”
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Ink block
Dried ink, gilding, paper
Japan, early 20th century
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Snow spectacles
Wood, sinew cord
Unknown Inuit artisan, Northern Alaska, late 19th to early 20th century
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Wooly Clover (Trifolium tomentosum)
Collected by David Styer near Marina Airport, 2010
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