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Object Number:NA4291
Current Location: Native American Voices
Currently On Display
Culture:Tlingit
Provenience: Alaska
Culture Area: Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Horn (animal part)
Height: 14 Measurement Unit Not Provided
Credit Line:Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, 1916

Description

Bowl made from mountain sheep horn depicting a beaver with straight teeth and a cross-hatched tail.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

The Shadow Catcher: E.S. Curtis (01 Feb 1980 - 01 Aug 1980) View Objects in Exhibition
Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Catalogue, Collection] Williams, Lucy F. 2003. Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 40, pl. 34View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Wyatt, Victoria. 1984. Shapes of Their Thoughts: Reflections of Culture Contact in Northwest Coast Indian Art.. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma. pg. 80 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 32, fig. 19View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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