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Expertly carved and painted wooden rattle featuring a bird with upturned tail - Donald Ellis Gallery
Underside of wooden bird rattle with secondary small carved bird figure - Donald Ellis Gallery

Bird Rattle

Tsimshian
Northern British Columbia

ca. 1840-60

wood, paint, abalone shell, metal, cord

width: 11"

Inventory # N2085

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acquired by the Diker Collection, now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Seattle, WA

PUBLISHED

Bruce Bernstein et al., First American Art, The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2004, pg. 191 pl. 140

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