untitled material culture

Posted by danthro (Suburbia, United States) on 5 March 2008 in Lifestyle & Culture.

19th century Kwakiutl house post

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Comments (21)

Oswegan from Lake Oswego, United States

He is very ominous looking. Perhaps meant to ward off evil spirits.

5 Mar 2008 6:14am

Sujit Sudhi from Hyderabad, India

Who's this?
Nice capture. The perspective you chose adds to the mystery.

5 Mar 2008 6:34am

Pouhou from Apeldoorn, Netherlands

impressive size

5 Mar 2008 8:05am

chris chisu from Seattle, United States

Love the grain in this shot.

5 Mar 2008 8:35am

Pedro Callealta from Spain

an impressive vision, full of textures. it heightens the size of the motive.

5 Mar 2008 9:38am

timothy sullivan from tokyo, Japan

awesome grain, tones; great perspective; guessing-- maoi?

5 Mar 2008 11:50am

@timothy sullivan: sorry, had to go back and look it up to be sure. kwakiutl house post. but yours was one of the geographically closest guesses.

mckun from China

This statue is like those on Easter Island.
Great angle,good job!

5 Mar 2008 11:52am

@mckun: Thanks! not quite on the guess though there are some great statues on Easter Island, this is further north (Canada), Kwakiutl.

HorseRotorVator from Newton, United States

The tone and angle are super cool! :)

5 Mar 2008 12:06pm

Craiger from Vacaville, California, United States

Your POV works well here!

5 Mar 2008 12:26pm

vu@granby - Wolfgang Prigge from Granby, QC, Canada

Very interesting because of the POV and the textures. Is it a Haida sculpture?

5 Mar 2008 1:36pm

@vu@granby - Wolfgang Prigge: Not quite. But close geographically at least! Kwakiutl house post.

Melissa from Warsaw, Indiana, United States

I like the detail of the grain and the treatment, but it's the perspective that's impressive. Well done.

5 Mar 2008 1:44pm

Ronnie 2¢ from London, United Kingdom

Perfect tone choices and PoV here. This makes such a strong statement from such a simple frame.

5 Mar 2008 1:52pm

Kevin from OrganicPIX.com from DFW, Texas, United States

Like the way the totem towers over the viewer!
The shadows and highlight areas of the wood grain helps to instills awe and wonderment of the people who carved it.

5 Mar 2008 2:33pm

paulski from Muncie, United States

awesome. love the sperspective, use of b/w. well done.

5 Mar 2008 5:11pm

yiannis krikis from thessaloniki, Greece

I like the pov and the tonal range

5 Mar 2008 5:42pm

Michael from Wuppertal, Germany

Excellent shot!

5 Mar 2008 8:50pm

Scarabaeus from Manchester, United Kingdom

Scart, I like the view looking upwards.

5 Mar 2008 10:19pm

Ron from Saint Louis, United States

Very organic – until, that is, you get up to that "popcorn" ceiling. I'm digging your title: Untitled material culture…hmmm.

5 Mar 2008 11:26pm

@Ron: thanks. well, that's unfortunately what things often become by the time they get to museums.

Jen from Alpharetta, United States

Great angle and textures

5 Mar 2008 11:45pm

sherri from Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Amazingly large carving.

6 Mar 2008 2:55am

vera from Philippines

interesting back-diving ? contre plongée, do you say that in english? :-)) jsut to make a fantastic mood

6 Mar 2008 3:33am

@vera: thank you. i unfortunately don't understand what you mean by "back-diving" though.

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