Argillite Ship Panel Pipe, depicting a Steamship, perhaps a Whaler, with the Cabin, Smokestack, Rudder, Figure (head missing), and a Anglo-European Helmsman
Haida
First Nation
Northwest Coast
collected 1820-1860
Relief carved argillite
Overall: 5 1/8 × 15 3/8 in. (13 × 39 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly
22.3.1905
Geography
Place Made: Haida Gwaii, Canada, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Pipe
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Publication History
[Northern, Tamara]. "Native American Art". Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, page 14 . (Published in conjunctionwith Gutman Gallery opening exhibition)
Provenance
Collected by "an old sea captain," about 1820-1860; to General John Hewston, California; bequeathed to his niece, Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly (1851-1927), West Newton, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1922.
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