woodcarving: Media
Videos
Discover wood-carving traditions handed down from past generations of the Northwest Coast Indian peoples
Traditional wood carving of the Northwest Coast Indians.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Images
Lega culture: initiation object
Lega iginga figure (an initiation object), wood with plastic beads, Lega...
Photograph by Lisa O'Hara. Brooklyn Museum, New York, gift of Marcia and John Friede, 74.66.1
wooden sphinx
Striding winged sphinx, wood with paint, from Thebes, Egypt, c. 1352–36...
Photograph by Katie Chao. Brooklyn Museum, New York, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 56.100
Wooden thunderbird of the Haida tribe, northwest coast of North America, 19th century;...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum
Zande male figure
Standing male figure, wood, Zande culture, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th...
Photograph by Katie Chao. Brooklyn Museum, New York, Museum Expedition 1922, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 22.103