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Frontal view of an elongated cradle figure carved from wood | Donald Ellis Gallery
Profile view of a finely carved wooden cradle figure | Donald Ellis Gallery
Side view of a rare Northwest Coast cradle figure masterfully carved from wood | Donald Ellis Gallery

Cradle Figure

Makah
Washington

ca. 1860

wood

height: 20 ½"

Inventory # N4516

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PROVENANCE

George Terasaki, New York, NY
Herbert G. Wellington, Jr., Locust Valley, New York, NY, acquired from the above by 1982
Sotheby's, New York, May 20, 2009, lot 203, consigned by the estate of his wife, Patricia B. Wellington
Private Collection, Oregon, acquired at the above auction
Sotheby's, New York, January 18, 2023, lot 720

PUBLISHED

Douglas C. Ewing, Pleasing the Spirits: A Catalogue of a Collection of American Indian Art, New York: Ghylen, 1982, pg. 76, pl. 26, and pg. 84, cat. no. 5
Zena Pearlstone Mathews, Color and Shape in American Indian Art, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983, pg. 23, cat. no. 48

EXhibited

Color and Shape in American Indian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1983

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