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Carved and shell-inlaid hollow bone amulet featuring humanoid and zoomorphic imagery - Donald Ellis Gallery
Long view of a delicately carved bone amulet with incised formline design - Donald Ellis Gallery

Soul Catcher

Tsimshian
Northern British Columbia

19th century

bear femur, abalone shell, paint

width: 6 ¼"

Inventory # CN3351

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PROVENANCE

Tom Richardson, Nanook Bay, BC
Doug Harris, Duncan, BC
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
Private collection, Chicago, IL 

PUBLISHED

Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 1999, pg. 22

RELATED EXAMPLES

The McCord Museum, Montreal, Quebec, No. 1244 - See: Masterpieces of Indian and Eskimo Art pl. 117

The Seattle Art Museum, Hauberg Collection - See: Box Of Daylight, Holm, pl. 203 and Tangible Visions, Wardwell, Monacelli Press,1996, pl. 294

Royal British Columbia Museum, No. 9619 - See: Tangible Visions, Wardwell, Monacelli Press, 1996, pl. 293

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