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Shaman's Charm

Tlingit
Southern Alaska

ca. 1820-40

marine mammal ivory

width: 6"

Inventory # N1364

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acquired by the Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, MA

Fred Marsh (b. 1878 d. 1940), Bangor, Maine
Vincent Flanders, Florida
Keith Reeves, Winter Park, Florida

National Museum of the American Indian, 9/7951 (purchase from Emmons 1921) - See: Tangible Visions, Wardwell, Monacelli Press, 1996, No. 16

Peabody Museum, 69-30-10/1894 (purchased from Fast1869) - See: Tangible Visions (ibid), No. 203

Thomas Burke Museum, 926 (for a cruder example) - See: "Land Otters and Shamans", Jonaitis, American Indian Art Magazine, Winter 1978, pg.62