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Time Period:
1800-1900
Materials:
Stone
Techniques:
Pecked
Dimensions:
Cultures:
American Indians, Native Americans, North America, Northern Northwest Coast, Northwest Coast, Tsimshian, Tsimshian [Kitkatla]
City:
Kitkatla
County:
Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District
State:
British Columbia
Country:
Canada
Collection History:
Formerly owned by Solomon Brown (Tsimshian, ca. 1887-1970); transferred at an unknown date to Pat Phillipson (a Prince Rupert, British Columbia, fur dealer who also bought and sold Native artifacts); sold or given to Alex Rasmussen (ca. 1887-1945, collector and superintendent of schools in Wrangell and Sitka, Alaska) in July 1930; lent by Rasmussen to the Wrangell Institute (a Native boarding School in Wrangell, Alaska) at an unknown date and presumably transferred to the Institute's possession with Rasmussen's death in 1945; sold to Susan Barrow (Mrs. Henry D. Barrow, 1907-1988, teacher at the Wrangell Institute) in 1945; donated to MAI by Mrs. Barrow in 1948.
Source ID:
NMAI_225867
Catalog Number:
21/1565
Album Name:
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