For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay on #Woodensday :
Root #Rattlesnake
USA, c.1930
Carved & painted wood with metal
6 1⁄4 x 23 1⁄8 x 17 in. (15.9 x 58.7 x 43.2 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum 1986.65.321 https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/root-rattlesnake-25162

#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
Nehat Ennu Sewet/Basket with #snake design made by a Cahuilla or Kumeyaay Ancestor, San Ysidro, CA, before 1915
Juncus, dyed juncus, deergrass
Seen on display at the Field Museum’s “Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories” exhibition in 2022
“My Univash/teacher, Donna Largo, had this story about a rattlesnake who was bothering the weaver. She kept shooing it away and said, ‘If you don't go away I'll put you in my basket.’ And now look, there you see it.“

#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
Knotted #Rattlesnake
Aztec, Postclassic 1100-1520 CE
Basalt, H 11 1/4 x W 16 in. (28.5 x 40.64 cm)
The Walters Art Museum 29.2 https://art.thewalters.org/object/29.2/
“Snakes were powerful symbols throughout Mesoamerican history, linked with the sky, rain, and agriculture. Aztecs may have seen the snake's shedding of its skin as a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life, death, and rebirth.”
#IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt

#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
Root #Rattlesnake, USA, 1930
carved & painted wood with metal
6 1⁄4 x 23 1⁄8 x 17 in. (15.9 x 58.7 x 43.2 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum 1986.65.321 https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/root-rattlesnake-25162
#FolkArt

For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
1. #Rattlesnake
#Aztec , 1200-1520 CE
Rhyolite porphyry
2. #Snake Head
Aztec, 1200-1520 CE
Serpentine (very fitting!)
both on display at Dumbarton Oaks
#IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt

For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay on #TilesOnTuesday :
another of the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Chapman Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor, many featuring PA animals: 374, “Crotalus.” That’s the scientific name for a genus of rattlesnakes, only one of which is native to PA: Crotalus horridus, the Timber Rattlesnake.

For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
#Rattlesnake Gorget, 16th c.
Mississippian artist, Tennessee
Carved shell
On display at Brooklyn Museum
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt