Shaman's Rattle
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia
ca. 1840-60
wood, paint, including Chinese vermilion, metal, fibre
height: 13"
Inventory # CN4313-143
Sold
old native repair to crack on reverse, otherwise no restoration or repair
Provenance
Ader Picard Tajan, Hotel Drouot 10/26/78
Armand Trampitsch collection, Paris, France
Sotheby's N.Y. 4/27/84 lot 59
Private collection, Scottsdale, AZ
David Stock, Scottsdale, AZ
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, New York, NY
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
Private collection, Toronto, ON
Related Examples
Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. No. 19/1704 - See: Tangible Visions, Wardwell, The Monacelli Press, 1996, No. 380 for another example by the same hand
National Museum of Man, No. VII-X-208 – See: Masterpieces of Indian and Eskimo Art From Canada, Societe des Amis du Musee de l’Homme, Paris, 1969 pl. 100
Smithsonian Institution, No. 20/874 – See: Collins, Henry B. De Laguna, Frederica. Carpenter, Edmund. Stone, Peter. The Far North: 2000 Years of Eskimo and Indian Art. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1973, pg. 264, pl. 343