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Beautifully carved bowl of mountain sheep horn showing bird and frog imagery - Donald Ellis Gallery

Horn Bowl

Haida
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

ca. 1840-60

mountain sheep horn

height: 4 ½"
width: 6"

Inventory # N1896

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PROVENANCE

Reportedly collected by Napoleon Le Moyne, a missionary (d. 1908)
Pierre Scott, Calumet Island, ON
Mira Scott, Hilton Head, SC

PUBLISHED

Donald Ellis Gallery Catalogue, 1999, pg. 1

Brasser, Ted. J. Native American Clothing: An Illustrated History. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2009, pg. 287

RELATED EXAMPLES

The Burke Museum, Seattle, WA, No. 1-3003 - See: Spirit and Ancestor, Holm, University of Washington Press, 1987, pl. 60 (a bowl by the same artist)

Box of Daylight, Holm, University of WA Press, 1984, pl. 123 (a bowl by the same artist)

Seattle Art Museum, No. 85.356 - See: Brown, The Spirit Within, Rizzoli, New York, 1995, pl. 44 (a ladle by the same artist)

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