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Female Figure
attributed to “the Jenna Cass carver”
Haida
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia
Haida
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia
early 19th century
wood, paint, cloth, hair, spruce gum
height: 19"
Inventory # N3861
Sold
acquired by the Thomson Collection now at the Art Gallery of Ontario
PROVENANCE
Collected in Puget Sound, WA, by Captian William Martain, in 1828
Woburn Public Library, Woburn, MA (1923)
PUBLISHED
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2012, pl. 13
RELATED EXAMPLES
For 3 figures by the same artist see: Grimes, John, Feest, Christian, and Curran, Mary Lou. Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art From the Peabody Essex Museum. New York: American Federation of the Arts, 2002, pgs. 134-135, pl. 48
Holm, Bill and Vaughan, Thomas. Soft Gold: The Fur Trade and Cultural Exchange on The Northwest Coast of America. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1982, pgs. 160-161, pls. 135 and 136
For a group of masks by the same artist see: Grimes, ibid., 2002, pgs. 150-151, pl. 58