Amulet
Southeast Alaska
ca. 1850
bone, paint
width: 5 ¼"
Inventory # N3925
Sold
acquired by the Diker Collection, now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Provenance
Marius Barbeau, purchased from Axel Rasmussen at Wrangell, Alaska, in 1939
The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, New York, NY
Exhibited
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, May 7, 1998 to January 2, 2000
First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art, National Museum of the American Indian, April 24, 2003 to May 29, 2006
PUBLISHED
Haida Myths Illustrated in Argillite Carvings, Barbeau. Ottawa: National Parks Branch, National Museum of Canada, 1953, pg. 270
Native Paths, Wardwell, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998, pg. 116, no. 130
First American Art, Bernstein, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2004, pg. 97, no. 44