The market cross at Wymondham in Norfolk. The timber framed structure was built in 1617, replacing an earlier medieval cross which was destroyed by fire in 1615. My own. #Woodensday #Medieval #Norfolk

The lid of painted wooden casket depicting a courting couple. Possibly dating to the 15th century, the casket may have been used as an engagement present. Now part of the collections at Tullie House Museum in Carlisle. My own. #Woodensday #Medieval #Carlisle

Good morning Mastodon. Here’s a boat-turned-shed on Holy Island, Lindisfarne, Northumbria to brighten your Wednesday morning.

#Woodensday :
Dance Mask
Yup'ik artist, Alaska, c. 1900
Wood, pigment, vegetal fiber
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York L.2018.35.100
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt

#Woodensday :
Ema: #Octopus as Buddha of Healing Takoyakushi
たこ薬師
Jôju-in Temple, Tokyo, Japan, 1989
wood, ink, paints, nylon cord; 9 x 13 x 0.5 cm
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Ethnologisches Museum
https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/1441053/ema-krake-als-buddha-der-heilung-takoyakushi-%E3%81%9F%E3%81%93%E8%96%AC%E5%B8%AB
#JapaneseArt

Image credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Claudius Kamps CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

For #Woodensday:
A #netsuke of an #octopus ghost* and #monkey
Tsu, Japan, late 18th/early 19th c.
Wood, 6.4 cm (2.5 in)
https://www.bonhams.com/auction/21100/lot/50/a-netsuke-of-an-octopus-ghost-and-monkey-tsu-late-18thearly-19th-century/
#JapaneseArt
* So I found out these are characters from a Japanese legend about Ryujin, the Dragon King of the Sea. The octopus is the royal physician, who has just prescribed a monkey’s liver to heal the king’s sick daughter. Hence the monkey’s terrified look. “Ghost” must just be a mistranslation of mythical.

For #Crustmas on #Woodensday:
gamisida długwe' (#Crab Puppet)
Kwakwaka'wakw, BC, Canada, before 1952
Painted wood 11.4x22.9x67.9cm
UBC Museum of Anthropology A6362
http://collection-online.moa.ubc.ca/search/item?keywords=crab&row=25
#FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt
“The Kwakwaka’wakw have a history of puppetry related to their ceremonial feasts.“

For #Woodensday :
Figure of a wild #boar sow, 1952
Eastern Band of #Cherokee artist
(Eastern Cherokee Reservation, Qualla Boundary, Swain Co, NC, USA)
Carved & polished walnut wood
11.8 x 3.5 x 7 cm
Smithsonian NMAI 25/6978
https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_272862
#NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

#Woodensday! Only few pieces of furniture from early medieval times have been preserved. Due to the water-logged condition of the area, many wooden objects such as this terrific chair made from maple and ash wood survived in a burial at Trossingen.
Dating 580 AD.

Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg

#archaeology

#Woodensday! Wooden votive offerings in the shape of parts of the human body, from the spring sanctuary near the #Roman settlement at Dambach, Bavaria.
Objects like this were given to healing deities. They were intended either to indicate the part of the body that needed help or to thank for a cure. Dating around 200 AD.

On display at Römermuseum Weißenburg.

#Woodensday!

Only few pieces of furniture from early medieval times have been preserved.

Due to the water-logged condition of the area, many wooden objects such as this terrific chair made from maple and ash wood survived in a burial at Trossingen.

Dating 580 AD.

@ALM_BaWue

Nina Willburger @DrNWillburger #medieval #history #chairs #furniture #Trossingen

For #WoodpeckerWednesday + #Woodensday :
Designed by Emile Gallé (French, 1846–1904)
"side table depicting a #woodpecker perched on oak branch, retrieving an acorn"
wood, marquetry, signed; 24 1/4"Dia x 22"H
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/side-table-depicting-a-woodpecker-perche/3E3023DD9F4D84CE6CBFF95B08F16FA4
#BirdsInArt

For #NationalCougarDay on #Woodensday :
Mountain lion effigy (part of a ritual cache), Salado branch of the Mogollon (New Mexico, US), 14th-15th c.
Wood, stone, string, pigment
The Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/55249/ritual-cache
#NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

For #Woodensday: #carousel #dogs !
1. Loof Factory
"Queen" Carousel Piece, 1890
painted wood
2. Devos Carousel Makers
French Carousel Poodle, c.1923
painted wood
On display at AKC Museum of the Dog
#DogsInArt

For #Woodensday:
Dirck van Rijswijck (Dutch, 1596-1679)
Floral Still Life, mid-17th century
Ebony, rosewood, and mother-of-pearl on oak panel, in an African blackwood frame
On display at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(1/2 - see next post for closeups of the insects!)

#Woodensday:
Fantasy coffin (abebui adera) in the form of an #eagle , 2017
Crafted by: Joseph Tetteh Ashong (Paa Joe) (Ghanaian, b.1947)
Painted by: Jasper Mensah (Ghanaian)
Made in: Pobiman, Accra, Ghana
Painted wood,132.1×91.4×287cm (52 × 36 × 113 in.)
on display at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

#Woodensday! The earliest known depiction of #gingerbread men? The archangels Gabriel and Michael?

Front of a wooden jewellery casket, found in Ellwangen-Pfahlheim, dating around 700 AD.

On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

For #Woodensday a wooden floor of a neolithic house. Unearthed in Alleshausen-Grundwiesen, a wetland settlement at the western rim of the Federsee marshlands, 3020-2700 BC .

H. Schlichterle/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg

For #Woodensday, check out this cool #octopus at the The State Museum of Pennsylvania’s Art of the State show:
Steven Kulp (Souderton, PA)
Master of Disguise
wood carving