Bentwood Storage Box
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
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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