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Carved bone amulet in the form of an orca whale carrying a humanoid figure - Donald Ellis Gallery

Amulet

Tlingit
Southeast Alaska

18th century or earlier

bone

width: 3 ½"

Inventory # CN3895i

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Provenance

Marius Barbeau, purchased from Axel Rasmussen at Wrangell, Alaska, in 1939
The Allen and Sally Wardwell collection, New York, NY

Published

Haida Myths Illustrated in Argillite Carvings, Barbeau, Ottawa, National Museum of Canada, 1953, pg. 269, pl. 330