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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

width: 5 ¾"

Inventory # N3193

Sold

acquired by the Thomson Collection now at the Art Gallery of Ontario


PROVENANCE

Private collection, Middlesex, United Kingdom

PUBLISHED

Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2005, pg. 47

RELATED EXAMPLES

Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, Holm and Reid, University of WA Press, 1975, No. 7, and La rime et la raison, 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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