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Dagger Hilt
Tsimshian
Northern British Columbia
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, England
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)