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A wooden puppet of a person with outstretched hands and human hair - Donald Ellis Gallery

Puppet

Kwakwaka'wakw
Vancouver Island, British Columbia

ca. 1860

wood, paint, human hair

height: 23 ½"

Inventory # CN4519

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PROVENANCE

Arthur O. Wellman, Connecticut 
Sotheby's New York, June 4, 1997, lot 219 (sold for $101,500)
Ziff Family Collection, New York, NY

RELATED EXAMPLE

American Museum of Natural History, Cat. No. 16/8247 - See: Aldona Jonaitis, From the Land of the Totem Poles, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988, pl. 80, for a group of three wooden figures collected by George Hunt during the Jesup Expedition, 1901