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Refined figural rattle in the form of a bird with several figures on its back - Donald Ellis Gallery

Rattle

possibly Nuu-chah-nulth, Westcoast or Coast Salish
Vancouver Island, British Columbia

ca. 1820-40

wood, paint, cord

width: 14 ½"

Inventory # CN4313-146

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no restoration or repair

PROVENANCE:

H.G. Beasley Collection, Founder of the Cranmore Ethnographical Museum, Chislehurst, Kent, United Kingdom
Merton Simpson, New York, NY
Michael Kan, Detroit, MI
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
Private collection, Toronto, ON

Published

Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 1999, pg. 19
Brasser, Theodore. J. Native American Clothing: An Illustrated History. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2009, pg. 287

RELATED EXAMPLE

Portland Art Museum, No. 48.3.367 (The Rasmussen Collection) - See: Tangible Visions, Wardwell, Monacelli Press, NY, 1996, pl. 76

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