Drum Painted by a School Girl

Unidentified Tlingit School Girl
Tlingit
Northwest Coast

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collected in 1921

White seal skin, wood, copper nails, white leather, and paint

Overall: 14 5/16 × 2 11/16 in. (36.3 × 6.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Florence Letchworth Howland Denison

42.1.7719

Geography

Place Made: Sitka, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Musical Instrument

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Northwest Coast

Not on view

Course History

ENGS 2, Integrated Design: Engineering, Architecture, and Building Technology, Jack Wilson, Vicki May, Winter 2015

ENGS 2, Integrated Design: Engineering, Architecture, and Building Technology, Jack Wilson, Vicki May, Winter 2015

ENGS 2, Integrated Design: Engineering, Architecture, and Building Technology, Jack Wilson, Vicki May, Winter 2015

NAS 37, ANTH 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Spring 2015

NAS 30.18, Indians Who Rock the World: Native American Contemporary Music, Davina Two Bears, Spring 2019

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.

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

School Girl, selling in front of the old Russian Trading Post, Sitka, Alaska; sold to Henry Raymond Howland (1844-1931), Buffalo, New York, 1921; to his daughter Florence Letchworth Howland Denison, 1875-1967) (Mrs. William Kendall Denison) Peterborough, New Hampshire; given to present colleciton, 1942.

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