Fragment from a "Copper"

Tsimshian
First Nation
Northwest Coast

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19th century

Copper

Overall: 6 × 4 3/4 in. (15.2 × 12.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Meltzer

163.22.15111

Geography

Place Made: Hazelton, Canada, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Northwest Coast

Not on view

Exhibition History

Peoples and Cultures of the Northwest Coast and Arctic Regions, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-October 14, 1990.

Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Arctic Region, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Native American Studies 21 / Anthropology 40, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 30-December 20, 1992.

Provenance

Captain George C. Mortimer, Indian Agent, Hazelton, British Columbian; 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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