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Haida

Carving (human/animal, wolf, human and bear designs)

Haida, 1879

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Haida

Carving (human/animal, wolf, human and bear designs)

Haida, 1879

Physical Qualities Argillite, 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (11.5 x 14 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Irene Gulck and Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow, by exchange with the Denver Art Museum
Object Number 1953.4.12
Formline sculpture; one bear holding a human upside down, a second human is holding a bear who is holding the third human who has a knife.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by exchange, 1953; Denver Art Museum by gift; Charles M. Schenk Estate.
Frederick Lamp, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, In The Image of Woman, July 1983, no. 2.

Inscribed: Denver Art Museum accession number written in white on bottom; very blurry: 'Qhi-10-G'.

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