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Fine carved frontlet with human/bird imagery and abalone shell inlay - Donald Ellis Gallery
Painted and carved frontlet with shell inlay in the form of a bird/human - Donald Ellis Gallery

Headdress Frontlet

Tlingit
Southeastern Alaska

ca. 1870

wood, paint, abalone shell

height: 7"

Inventory # CN3247

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PROVENANCE

Proctor Stafford Collection, Honolulu, HI
Private collection, Toronto, ON
Collected by the silversmith, William Sprattling on his 1935 expedition to Alaska sponsored by the US Department of the Interior

PUBLISHED

Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2005, pg. 45

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