Headdress Frontlet
Northern British Columbia
ca. 1840-60
wood, paint, abalone shell
height: 7 ½"
Inventory # N4197
Sold
acquired by the Elspeth McConnell Collection, now at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC
Provenance
Paul Rabut, Westport, CT, 1980’s
Estate of George Terasaki, New York, NY
Published
Brown, Steven C. Transfigurations: North Pacific Coast Art, George Terasaki, Collector. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2006, plate 14
Related Examples
Evrard, Marcel (et al.) Masterpieces of Indian and Eskimo Art From Canada. Paris: Societe des Amis du Musee de l’Homme, 1969, plates 110 and 112
Wardwell, Allen. Objects of Bright Pride: Northwest Coast Indian Art From the American Museum of Natural History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978, pg. 65