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Masterfully carved dagger hilt possibly in the form of a sea bear - Donald Ellis Gallery

Dagger Hilt

Tsimshian
Northern British Columbia

ca. 1850

marine mammal ivory, abalone shell

length: 5 ¾"

Inventory # N3193

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PROVENANCE

Private collection, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Donald Ellis Gallery, New York, NY and Dundas, ON
Sir Kenneth Thomson, Toronto, ON
Donald Ellis Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

exhibited

Art Gallery of Ontario, November 2008–2024

PUBLISHED

Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2005, pg. 47

RELATED EXAMPLES

Bill Holm and Bill Reid, Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, University of Washington Press, 1975, no. 7

La Rime et la Raison: Les Collections Ménil (Houston-New York): [exposition] Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris 17 avril-30 juillet 1984, Ministere de la Culture, Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux: Paris, 1984, #188

Sotheby’s, New York, May 19, 1998, lot 379 (ex De Menil Collection, Houston, TX)

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