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Superbly carved horn ladle featuring a human wearing a lip plug or labret - Donald Ellis Gallery

Ladle

Haida
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

ca. 1860

mountain goat and mountain, sheep horn, copper pegs

height: 17"

Inventory # N3391

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PROVENANCE

Paul Gray, Old Chatham, NY
The John Painter Collection, Cincinnati, OH

PUBLISHED

Painter, John. A Window on the Past. Cincinnati: Berman Printing Co., 2003, pl. 235a
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2007, pg. 7
Brasser, Ted. J. Native American Clothing: An Illustrated History. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2009, pg. 288

RELATED EXAMPLES      

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, No. 6268 – See: Evrard, Marcel (et al. Masterpieces of Indian and Eskimo Art From Canada. Paris: Societe des Amis du Musee de l’Homme, 1969, pl. 95 for a ladle likely by the same hand.