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A soul catcher made of mountain goat horn with abalone shell and wood inlay - Donald Ellis Gallery
Rear view of a shaman’s soul catcher expertly carved from mountain goat horn - Donald Ellis Gallery

Soul Catcher

Haida or Tsimshian
Northern British Columbia

ca. 1780-1820

mountain goat horn, abalone shell, wood, metal

width: 6 ½"

Inventory # N3221

Please contact the gallery for more information.

PROVENANCE

The Alderman Collection, Connecticut
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. 44
Ted J. Brasser, Native American Clothing: An Illustrated History, Toronto: Firefly Books, 2009, pg. 284

RELATED EXAMPLES

For two examples fashioned of wood rather than bone see:
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC, Inv. Nos. I/8055 and 10/1099 – See: Allen Wardwell, Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and its Art, New York: The Monacelli Press, 1996, nos. 282 and 297

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