Argillite Pipe Bowl Depicting Five Intertwined Figures Including a Human, Bird, and a Frog
Haida
First Nation
Northwest Coast
about 1860
Argillite
Overall: 3 3/8 × 15/16 × 4 in. (8.5 × 2.4 × 10.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26119
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
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on white label with double red border, in black ink: "Haida Indian B-C"
Course History
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
Exhibition History
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
Provenance
Collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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