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Shaman Figure
Tlingit
Southeast Alaska
Southeast Alaska
ca. 1840
wood, paint, human hair (replaced)
height: 5 ½"
Inventory # CN3889
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Provenance
The Allen and Sally Wardwell Collection, New York, NY
Published
Medicine Men of the North Pacific Coast, Barbeau, Ottawa, National Museums of Canada, Bulletin no. 152, 1958, pg. 49, pl. 58
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2012, pg. 113, pl. 48
Related Examples
Wardwell, Allen. Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and its Art. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1996, pg. 324, no. 493