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A small carved and painted upright human figure with dramatic hair and protruding tongue - Donald Ellis Gallery

Shaman Figure

Tlingit
Southeast Alaska

ca. 1840

wood, paint, human hair (replaced)

height: 5 ½"

Inventory # CN3889

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Provenance

The Allen and Sally Wardwell Collection, New York, NY

Published

Medicine Men of the North Pacific Coast, Barbeau, Ottawa, National Museums of Canada, Bulletin no. 152, 1958, pg. 49, pl. 58
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2012, pg. 113, pl. 48

Related Examples

Wardwell, Allen. Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and its Art. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1996, pg. 324, no. 493

Related Publications

2012

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