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Shaman's Amulet
Tsimshian
Northern British Columbia
Northern British Columbia
2nd quarter of the 19th century
marine mammal ivory, abalone shell
Inventory # N1384
Sold
acquired by the Thomson Collection now at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Carved in the form of an embryonic anthro/zoomorphic figure, abalone shell inlaid in the eye socket and in two ovoids along the back, the long tail circling back and held by hand to mouth; two drilled holes for suspension from neck along back.
PROVENANCE
Charles Ratton, Paris, France
John Hewitt, London, England
George Ortiz, Geneva, Switzerland
RELATED EXAMPLE
For a similar example collected by Newcombe at Aiyansh, now at the Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, BC (9681) see:
Allen Wardwell, Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and its Art, New York: The Monacelli Press, 1996, pg. 214