Rattle in the Shape of a Tináa (Copper Shield), with a Bird Figure
Tlingit, Alaska, Northwest Coast
collected about 1820-1860
Wood, spruce root, pigment
Overall: 9 5/8 x 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 in. (24.5 x 8 x 8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly
22.3.1893
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Musical Instrument: Percussion Instrument
Classification
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Summer 2013
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
Exhibition History
The Tradition Continues: Native American Art from New England Collections, Smith College Museum of Art, North Hampton, Massachusetts, March 10-May 29, 1994.
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.
Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Artic 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.
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.
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.
An Introduction of the History of Art from the Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12-March 15, 1992.
Publication History
[Northern, Tamara]. "Native American Art". Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, p. 11. (Published in conjunction with Gutman Gallery opening exhibition)
George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. on p. 90 and p. 145, no. 35.
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.
Old Number
Red No. 22.51
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