North West Coast Tribal Art
British Colombia
Shaman Raven Rattle, 1830
Tlingit, North West Coast, British Colombia
Maple wood, pigments
14.75 inches (length)
Provenance
Ex Adelaide de Menil and Edmund Carpenter (acquired in the 1970s from the martin Best Family of Toronto)
Ex Private Collection, New York
British Colombia
Raven Tlingit Headdress, 19th Century
Wood, pigment, human hair, leather
5 x 15 x 10 inches
Provenance
Paul Rabut (1983), Connecticut
Michael Kokin, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Eugene Chesrow, Chicago
George Everett Shaw, Aspen, Colorado
Ziff Family Collection, New York
British Colombia
Bear or Wolf Mask, Eskimo, Anvik, Alaska
Wood, pigment
8.5 x 14 inches
Provenance
Ex Heye Foundation – Museum of the American Indian, Inv.# 10/8074 Ex Julius Carlebach, NY, 1944
Private Collection, Santa Fe, NM Sold to Rene Dharnoncourt Sold back to Julius Carlebach
Ex Ziff Family Collection, New York
Ex James Economos Collection, Santa Fe, NM, to the present owner
British Colombia
Tlingit Bird Raven Headdress, 19th Century
Wood, pigment, abalone shell
13.5 x 9 x 9 inches
Provenance
Collection of the Museum of the American Indian Hey Foundation (1947)
Morton D. May, St. Louis, acquired from the above by exchange on March 15, 1967
Wellman Collection
Leonard Lasser MD, Connecticut
Myron Kunin, Minneapolis acquired from the above
Publications
“Art of the Northwest Coast Indian from the Lasser Collection” at the Leonard M. Lasser Collection, Boston, 1972