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Object Number:NA4969
Current Location: Native American Voices
Currently On Display
Culture:Haida
Provenience: Canada
British Columbia
Queen Charlotte Islands
Culture Area: Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Wood
Pigment
Length: 29.4 cm
Width: 19.6 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from G. T. Emmons, 1916

Description

Represents a sea monster with a human face.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Four Thousand Years of Music (18 May 1950 - Apr 1958) View Objects in Exhibition
Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition
American Indian Life 1776-1976 ( Dec 1976 - 1978) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Article] Seder, Theodore A. 1952. "Old World Overtones in the New World: Some Parallels with North American Indian Musical Instruments". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 16. no. 4. pg. 1-66 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: figure 23BView Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] 1976. American Indian Life: 1776-1976.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 25View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Ltd., and Duff, Wilson. 1967. "Arts of the Raven: Masterworks by the Northwest Coast Indian". Hands of Creation: An Exhibition of Northwest Coast Native Art. Vancouver, BC. Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Ltd. pg. Unpaginated Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Cat No 88View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Elsasser, Albert B., and Harner, Michael J. 1965. Art of the Northwest Coast: An Exhibition at the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley March 26 - October 17, 1965.. University of California at Berkeley. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 27View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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