Button Robe Depicting Raven Diving into Kelp Bed
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
late 19th century
Wool cloth and shell buttons
Overall: 61 13/16 × 50 3/8 in. (157 × 128 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Meltzer
163.22.15078
Geography
Place Made: Wrangell, United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Ceremonial
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Course History
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Spring 2012
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2013
NAS 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Medeia Krisztina C. DeHass, Spring 2013
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Summer 2013
NAS 37, ANTH 47, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Winter 2014
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015
NAS 37, ANTH 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
People of Potlatch, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 10, 1987-October 25, 1988.
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, 1963.
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