Oil Dish in the Form of a Frog

possibly Tlingit
Tlingit
Northwest Coast

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collected 1903-1904

Wood, walrus ivory, and abalone shell

Overall: 9 7/16 × 5 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (24 × 14 × 11.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lt. Col. Alfred T. Clifton, Class of 1927P

42.15.7810

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Food Service

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Northwest Coast

Not on view

Course History

ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012

Exhibition History

People of Potlatch, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 10-October 25, 1988.

Provenance

Collected by Lt. Col. Alfred Theodore Clifton (1875-1944) with the U.S. Army Signal Corps aboard the cable ship Burnside, St. Michael, Alaska, 1903-1904; given to present collection (through his son, Alfred Theodore Clifton, Jr. (1906-1996), Class of 1927), 1942.

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