Chair
Heiltsuk
Central Coast, British Columbia
ca. 1880-90
wood, blue, black and red pigments
height: 37 ¾"
width: 22 ½"
Inventory # CN3370
Sold
acquired by the Elspeth McConnell Collection, now at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC
PROVENANCE
Attributed to Captain Richard Carpenter (1841-1931), a Bella Bella boat builder and lighthouse keeper at Dryad Point, British Columbia
Pitt-Rivers Collection, England Roy G. Cole Collection, Rosseau, Ontario, Sotheby’s, NY, May 18, 19, 2000, lot 717
Private collection, Tucson, AZ
RELATED EXAMPLES
Royal British Columbia Museum, no. CPN, 1856 – See: Black, Martha. Bella Bella: A Season of Heiltsuk Art. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997, fig. 26, for a chief’s settee, signed by the maker