Chest With Top And Bottom. Item Number: E274488-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Bent wood sides, heavy top inlaid with opercula; sides carved and painted. Illus. in The Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1973, p. 182. From: page 82, Boxes and Bowls catalog; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illus. on same page: 73. Chest. Wood; carved in relief; painted black and red; inlaid with opercula and abalone shell; kerfed and sewn. Length: 38 [inches]. Alaska. Collected by John G. Brady."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=321, retrieved 3-31-2012: Chest or Box, Tlingit, Southeast Alaska.Listed on page 43 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".
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Collected by Gov John G. Brady in Alaska, USA between 1878 and 1909
- Received from Mrs. Edward H. Harriman on June 7, 1912
What
- Name
- Chest With Top And Bottom.
- Identification Number
- E274488-0
- Type of Item
- box
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- Gov John G. Brady
- Received from
- Mrs. Edward H. Harriman
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- between 1878 and 1909
- Acquisition Date
- on June 7, 1912
Other
- Accession Number
- 054171