Feast Dish in the Form of a Sea Lion
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
collected 1905
Alder with inlaid seal bone and abalone shell
Overall: 1 3/4 × 17 7/16 × 7 1/2 in. (4.5 × 44.3 × 19 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9576
Geography
Place Made: Sitka, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Object
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Exhibition History
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-August 18, 2019.
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, 2022.
Provenance
Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Sitka, Alaska, 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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