Drum Painted by a School Girl
Unidentified Tlingit School Girl
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
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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