Donald Ellis Secures Dundas Collection at Auction
The Maine Antiques Digest reports that Donald Ellis was able to secure the majority of the Dundas collection of Northwest Coast First Nations art at auction
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Clapper
Tsimshian
Northern British Columbia
Northern British Columbia
ca. 1850-60
wood, pigment, vegetal fibers
width: 9 ¾"
Inventory # N3991
Sold
Provenance
Collected by the Reverend Robert James Dundas at Metlakatla, British Columbia, in 1863, then by descent through the family
Simon Carey, London, United Kingdom
Sotheby’s, New York, October 5, 2006, lot 13
The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, New York, NY
Published
Tsimshian Treasures, Ellis (ed.), Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre, 2007, pgs. 166, 177 and 119 (upper)
Exhibited
Museum of Northern British Columbia, Prince Rupert, BC, March 2007 – June 2007
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, July 18 – October 7, 2007
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, ON, November 2 – January 6, 2008
UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, February to June, 2008
Related Examples
Holm, Bill. Box of Daylight. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984, pls. 19, 20 and 21
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