Bentwood Storage Box

Tlingit
Northwest Coast

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19th century

Kerfed cedar, paint, nails

Overall: 24 11/16 × 18 1/4 × 17 7/16 in. (62.7 × 46.3 × 44.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Meltzer

165.17.15611

Geography

Place Made: Wrangell, United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Personal Gear: Box

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Northwest Coast

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 11, NAS 11, Ancient Native Americans, Nathaniel Kitchel, Fall 2019

Exhibition History

The Art of the Northwest Coast, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 25/Native American Studies 49, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 25-May 18, 2003.

Provenance

Collected by Axel Rasmussen, in the 1920's and 1930's [until his death in 1945]; Earl Stendahl; to Doris Meltzer, Meltzer Gallery, New York; given to present collection, 1965.

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