Argillite Or Slate Box Item Number: E89002-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Rectangular black slate box with cover, on a cedar wood base. Lined with paper pages from "Young Ladies Journal." Figures are said to represent: killerwhale, bear, wolf."March 3, 2011, Robin K. Wright, Burke Museum, attributes to Zacherias Nicholas, also known as the "Master of the Chicago Settee".Listed on page 45 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected by James G. Swan in British Columbia, Canada
- Received on December 21, 1883
What
- Name
- Argillite Or Slate Box
- Identification Number
- E89002-0
- Type of Item
- box
Who
- Culture
- Haida
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- on December 21, 1883
Other
- Accession Number
- 013804