Skip to Content
n1868-first-nations-bella-bella-bent-corner-chest.jpg
Views
Lidded bentwood chest with black and red symmetric figural painting - Donald Ellis Gallery

Bent Corner Chest

Heiltsuk
Northern British Columbia

ca. 1870

wood, paint

height: 18 ½"
width: 33"
length: 18"

Inventory # N1868

Sold


PROVENANCE

Acquired from a family in British Columbia
Uno Langman, Vancouver, BC 

PUBLISHED

Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 1999, pg 23.

RELATED EXAMPLES

Royal Ontario Museum, No. 23113 - See: Bella Bella, Black, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 1997, No. 34

Royal Ontario Museum, No. 912x16.A&B - See: Ibid, No. 40

See also: The Far North, De Laguna, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1973, pl. 235 for images of four painted house screens showing great similarity of style, and possibly by the same hand

Related Publications