T’eixáa (Fish Hook)
Tlingit, Northwest Coast
collected 1820-1860
Alder wood, iron, spruce root, twisted cedar
Overall: 12 3/16 in. (31 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly
22.3.1904
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
Classification
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
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.
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.
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.
Publication History
Tamara Northern, Native American Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, 1985, p. 8, no. 3.
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. 22.58
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