Rattle-Lid Basket
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
about 1900
Spruce root, maidenhair fern (Adiantum sp.), bear grass, dyes, pebbles
Overall: 3 9/16 × 7 5/16 in. (9 × 18.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9398
Geography
Place Made: Hoonah, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Exhibition History
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.
The Tradition Continues: Native American Art from New England Collections, Smith College Museum of Art,Northhampton, Massachusetts, March 10-Mary 29, 1994.
Publication History
Tamara Northern, Native American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1985.
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. 126 and p. 145, no. 36.
Provenance
Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Hoonah, Alaska, 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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