A List of Objects Moved after the 1979 Fire

A small number among the many in Kurt’s varied collection of curios, objects, ritual implements, and instruments.

A small number among the many in Kurt’s varied collection of curios, objects, ritual implements, and instruments.

  • Snow Leopard pelt (Tibet) - small holes and tears

  • Frog Box (Wood) Haida - charred exterior
    Containing Amanita’s Things

  • Peyote Box (Kiowa Apache)
    Containing ritual objects
    Beaded waterbird fan (Kiowa Apache)
    Beaded rattle (Kiowa Apache)

  • Peyote Drum - Boston bean pot, iron & deer hide (Iron Hand) - Tied by Sei Mu

  • Peyote Robe (Ponca)

  • Mudhead Kiva Mask - Kachina Ritual object (Hopi)

  • Walrus snout with two tusks, gold filling (Donald Musserhan) - Aleut

  • Two Elephant Ivory Tusks (Chinese)

  • Ivory carved whale tooth - Eagle head

  • Jaguar head (Peru) stone & mescal bean (in leather bag)

  • Ivory toggle “whale/raven”

  • Basket (Thinget) with ivory whales teeth in leather bag

  • Arctic Fox mask

  • Persian Box - inlay on wood with stones, silver bead (Afghanistan) & Scarab (Egypt)

  • Blanket (Navajo) flatweave Rio Grande circa 1870
    Merino wool, some Bayeta colors, oranges
    From Tony Berlant, 1967

  • Blanket (Navajo) childs
    Indigo meander border with brown & grey field solid color, circa 1890

  • Blanket (Navajo) childs
    Bright reds, oranges, soft merino wool, circa 1870

  • Blanket (Navajo) two gray hills, circa 1890
    dark brown border, white, grey, red

  • Blanket (Navajo) “Eye Dazzler” Red, circa 1870

  • Blanket (Navajo) “Chiefs-Ladies” 2nd phase, circa 1860
    Natural dark brown, white, red

  • Blanket (Hopi) Wedding
    white cotton, red & black wool, woven by Herbert the Bonesetter, 2nd Mesa 1970

  • Brass Tray - circular (India?)

  • Basket Containing
    Turquoise “Chiefs” beads (Navajo) with silver
    Coral (Navajo) beads
    Shell (Seri) beads

  • Wood box with lid (unfinished) containing
    Silver bracelet “Peyote button” (1st Indian object purchased at auction, LA 1965 for $8

  • Aksobya Thangka

  • Woven poncho (Peru) circa 1870
    browns, some red threads, tight, some holes

  • Silk screen “Diamond Sutra” - Stephen Ehret, 1971
    Mandala poster “Tantric Cuisine”
    Turquoise & gold on white

  • Covered box (Japan) with MRC paraphrenalia

  • Petrified dinosaur vertebrae

  • Small double Dorje - eight leaf, precious metals (Tibet/Nepal) Boulder CO 1976

  • Sun/Moon - Bronze (Peru)

  • “Mushroom Beads” (Mazatec)

  • Leather bag containing
    Walrus ivory button
    Whale tooth toggle on gold chain screw top container
    Walrus ivory section
    Whale tooth - silver base with ring
    Larger Sperm Whale tooth
    Two whale teeth - drilled
    Five whale teeth
    One whale tooth pipe, end hole, silver rim, chipped and stained
    Two small dice

  • Wood Bowl (NW Coast)

  • Stone Pestle (found Napa 1971)

  • Grenwacke Adze (Maori, Nz) from John Perry 1963

  • Woven Belt (Tibet)

  • “Pukku” (Finland- Lapp)
    Ivory handle Reindeer head, leather sheaf, decorated shield & crown
    Sled & Reindeer engraved

  • Wolf Bullroarer - Ivory & bone, cord (Eskimo)

  • Piece of Camphor with incised design

  • Oval Chinese basket

  • 2 framed Ukiyo with mother spinning, child with fan sitting

  • Arman “I Tried One” Mescaline Hexagram sculpture, UCLA 1967

  • Cat’s eye Ring, Silver

  • Tea Cup, Boxed (Japan)

  • Tortoise Rattle (Mohawk)

  • Ush nish - Long Life Buddha - Three faces, bronze, Tibet

  • Mara Kame Hat (Huichol), straw with red felt decorative band

  • Kachina Doll - “Sun”, (Hopi) from Dan Katchongava, missing owl feathers

  • Kachina Mask (Hopi) with Amanita Muscaria, chiles

  • Silver Button “Tawa” face

  • Bell (Tibet) - seven precious metals, on chain

  • Photo “Mountain, Lake, Tree” - Scott Stafford, framed

  • Eskimo Basket - shells

  • Coiled Basket - California Indian

  • Opalala Sioux beaded pouch with Bison tooth, Bison hide

  • Navajo Pot

  • Wedding shirt (North India) pink with gold thread, cotton lined

  • Geodes

  • Pot - 3 lizards (Costa Rica)

  • 2 Black Fox pelts

  • 2 Red Fox pelts

  • Reindeer Skin - Amanita’s birth rug, June 24, 1971, 2:36 am

  • Tied basket from Jeff Bernstein

  • Embroidered shawl (Nuristan) from Afghan trip 1973

  • Skull (Tibet)

  • Silk Scarves (Kata) - from Lama Chime Rinpoche, Lama Tsenjur Rinpoche, Lama Kalu Rinpoche

  • Woven wool dress (Hopi), black, red, indigo

  • Inlaid wooden box, bamboo design

  • Wooden mala with 33 beads

  • Chenrezig - gilt, small standing Buddha with sunburst halo

  • Bronze Buddha head with double Dorje crown

  • Glass Bottle (Etruscan) from Will Shaw

  • Porcelain cup (China)

  • Small metal ball (Japan)

  • Silver baby cup (mine)

  • Rock crystal

  • Two Dinosaur gastroliths

  • Tuning fork - A440

  • Small and large gourds

  • Hand prayer wheel (Tibet/Nepal) - fire damaged

  • Cloisonne dish (China) - Red, green with yellow & blue flowers

  • Shenai - ebony and brass bell (India) from Wayne

  • Ceramic bowl- white glaze with ivory Mah Jong sticks

  • Wood and ceramic sculpture by Erik Gronberg - red and silver checker board

  • Bowl with Celadon glaze - shells, stone, points, bone spoon

  • Edison Blue Amerol Record

  • Meerchaum pipe handle - hand & leather case from Susan

  • Double refracting cystal & wood box

  • Small wood box - Ebony

  • Two geodes - 3 1/8” solid, 2 1/2”

  • Ka - Ivory 5”

  • Eskimo ivory chisel artifact - 4 1/2”

  • Ka - Ivory 4 1/2”

  • Quartz Crystals “Bear Mouth”, 6 1/2” x 2 3/4”

    PAINTINGS

  • Yantra - “Harmonic Consciousness” 2’x2’- Steve Barr

  • Yantra - “Universal Logos” 4’x 4’- Alan Hext

  • Yantra - “Harmonic Consciousness” 4’ x 4’ - Steve Barr

  • Yantra - “Equilibrium” 4’ x 4’ - Steve Barr

  • Yantra - “Mystic Pyramid” 4’ x 4’ - Alan Hext

  • “Mt. St. Helena from the Ranch” - Noble Richardson, May 1972

  • “Peyote Mandala” - Noble Richardson

  • “Totally Cosmic” - Noble Richardson, February, 1975

  • Photo Amanita Muscaria for R.G. Wasson SOMA, gilt frame with glass

  • Calligraphy - “Be Here Now - The Four Noble Truths”, by Sanje, Lama Chime Rinpoche

    BOOKS

  • Tanaka - The Tea Ceremony

  • American Heritage Dictionary

  • R.G. Wasson - SOMA The Divine Mushroom (HBJ, NY 1968)

  • Oscar Ichazo - The Human Process (Arica, NY 1975)

  • G. Spencer Brown - Laws of Form (Julian Press, NY 1972)

  • G. Spencer Brown - Only Two Can Play This Game (Julian Press, NY 1972)

  • Ed Ruscha - Burning Small Fires (LA 1969)

  • Agnes Murphy - The American Everyday Cookbook (Random House, NY 1955)

  • Robert Graves - The White Goddess (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, NY 1978)

  • Ascent - edited by Allen Steck (Sierra Club Books, SF)

  • Ronald Faux - Everest: Goddess of the Wind (Chambers, Edinburgh 1978)

  • Yvon Chouinard - Climbing Ice (Sierra Club, SF 1978)

  • Brandon Lehane - The Power of Plants (McGraw Hill, 1977)

  • Jeremy Bernstein - Ascent: Of the Invention of Mountain Climbing and its Practice (U. Neb 1965)

  • Jorge Luis Borges - The Book of Sand (EP Dutton, NY 1977)

  • Paul Bowles - Collected Stories (Black Sparrow, Sta Barbara 1979)

  • Robert Austin & Koichiro Ueda - Bamboo (Weatherhill 1970)

  • Jack Kramer - Orchids (Abrams NY 1975)

  • Nader Ardeelan & Laleh Bakhtiar - The Sense of Unity (Univ Chicago Press 1973)


    MUSIC

  • Karmapa - Empowerment Record and Booklet (Vajradhatu 1976)

  • Sylvano Bassotti - Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor (Universal Editions 1959)

  • Morton Feldman - “de Kooning” violin part, UCLA 1967, inscribed “to Kurt”


Kurt Von Meier
August 23, 1979