Shaman's Box
Northern Northwest Coast
ca. 1780-1820
wood, opercula shells
height: 12"
width: 10"
length: 10"
Inventory # N4348
Sold
Bottom of the box is replaced
PROVENANCE
Bill Pearson, San Francisco, CA
Private Collection, New Mexico
RELATED EXAMPLES
Sotheby’s, New York, June 4, 1997, lot 250 ($96,000 USD)
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Cat. Nos. 74/400, 20/751 and 89/215 – See: Sturtevant, William (ed.) Boxes and Bowls: Decorated Containers by Nineteenth Century Haida, Tlingit, Bella Bella, and Tsimshian Indian Artists. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974, plates 69, 70 and 71
Holm, Bill. Box of Daylight. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984, pg. 70, pl. 107
Brown, Steven C. Transfigurations: North Pacific Coast Art, George Terasaki, Collector. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2006, plate 61