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Carved wooden halibut hook featuring a rare figural representation of a shaman | Donald Ellis Gallery
Profile view of a wooden halibut hook carved in the form of a shaman | Donald Ellis Gallery

Halibut Hook

Tlingit
Southeast Alaska

ca. 1870

wood, metal, fibre

height: 9 ½"
width: 4 ¾"

Inventory # N4449

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PROVENANCE

Private collection, California

RELATED EXAMPLES

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, St. Petersburg, Russia, Cat. No. 2539-5 – See: Berezkin, Yuri E. (ed). Tlingit: Catalogue of the Kunstkamera. St. Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2007, pg. 36, pl. 5

Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, Cat. No. 4259 – See: Holm, Bill. Spirit and Ancestor: A Century of Northwest Coast Indian Art at the Burke Museum. Seattle: Burke Museum, 1987, pgs. 218-219, pl. 91

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