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Shaman’s cup made of sperm whale tooth with complex surface relief carving - Donald Ellis Gallery

Shaman's Cup

Tlingit
Southeastern Alaska

ca. 1780-1810

sperm whale tooth

height: 5"

Inventory # N2088

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PROVENANCE

June Bedford collection, London, United Kingdom
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

PUBLISHED

Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2005, pg. 46

RELATED EXAMPLES

American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, Inv. Nos. E2497 and E1275 – See: Allen Wardwell, Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and its Art, New York: The Monacelli Press, 1996, pls. 300 and 301

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, Inv. No. 78004 – See: Ibid., pl. 20

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