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Shaman's Charm
Tlingit
Southern Alaska
Southern Alaska
ca. 1820-40
marine mammal ivory
width: 6"
Inventory # N1364
Sold
acquired by the Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, MA
PROVENANCE
Fred Marsh (b. 1878 d. 1940), Bangor, Maine
Vincent Flanders, Florida
Keith Reeves, Winter Park, Florida
RELATED EXAMPLES
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