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Kwakwaka'wakw
Alert Bay, British Columbia
Alert Bay, British Columbia
late 19th century
wood, paint
height: 54 ½"
Inventory # N1517
Sold
acquired by the Audain Foundation, now at the U'mista Cultural Society, Alert Bay, BC
This figure representing a chief or his speaker, can be seen in two photographs likely taken by George Hunt for Franz Boas, at the marriage potlatch of Charlie Nowell at Alert Bay, in 1900 (Royal British Columbia Museum photographs PN 1078 and PN 1079 – See: Chiefly Feasts, Jonaitis, plates 1.4 and 3.23)
PROVENANCE
Acquired approximately 25 years ago by Don Krake, Los Angeles, CA, in an antiques store in Southern California
Jim Flury, Seattle, WA
PUBLISHED
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 1997, pg. 8
RELATED EXAMPLES
Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin, (IVA 1119) – See: Donnervogel und Raubwal, Indianische Kunst der Nordwestkuste Nordamerikas, Haberland, Hamburg, 1979, pl. H-32
Provincial Museum, Victoria, BC, No. 1851 – See: Art of the Northwest Coast Indians, Inverarity, University of California Press, 1950, pl. 246
Box of Daylight, Holm, University of Washington Press, 1984, fig. 196