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Dagger hilt in the form of a bird holding a human figure in its beak with abalone shell inlay | Donald Ellis Gallery

Dagger Hilt

Haida
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

ca. 1860

marine mammal ivory, abalone shell, glass beads

length: 6.7"

Inventory # N3283

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PROVENANCE

The Masco Collection, Detroit, MI
Donald Ellis Gallery, New York, NY and Dundas, Canada
Sir Kenneth Thomson, Toronto, Canada
Donald Ellis Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

EXHIBITED

Art Gallery of Ontario, November 2008–2024

RELATED EXAMPLES

Norman Bancroft-Hunt and Werner Forman, People of the Totem: The Indians of the Pacific Northwest, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979, pg. 95

Provincial Museum, Victoria, BC, Inv. No. 254 – See: Robert Bruce Inverarity, Art of the Northwest Coast Indians, Berkely: University of California Press, 1950, pl. 150