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Tlinglit, 1867-1899

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Tlingit

Face

Tlinglit, 1867-1899

Physical Qualities Wood, polychrome, 1 7/8 × 1 3/4 in. (4.7 × 4.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marcus
Object Number 1961.32
Portrait-like quality to face; red paint at nose, forehead and both cheeks (left horizontal lines, right: curvilinear lines); broad lips; black paint at eyebrows, eyes and lips; small hole at either side-back edge.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1961; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marcus.
Kristin Fedders, "A Miniature Shamanic Doll and Kit," "American Indian Art Magazine," Spring 1997, pp. 42-43.
Miguel Covarrubias, "The Eagle, the Jaguar and the Serpent: Indian Art of the Americas," New York: Knopf, 1954, ill. XIII.
Norman Feder, "Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art, New York: Praeger, 1971, p. 50.
Frederica DeLaguna, "Tlingit," in "Northwest Coast," vol. 7 (Handbook of North American Indians), Wayne Suttles, ed., Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pp. 203-208.
Bill Holm, "Art," in "Northwest Coast," vol. 7 (Handbook of North American Indians), Wayne Suttles, ed., Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pp. 602-632.
Bill Holm, "Box of Daylight," Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983.
Allen Wardwell, "Objects of Bright Pride," New York: The Center for Inter-American Relations and The American Federation of Arts, 1978.

Inscribed: 2 lines on 1 label: '015194' and '1296'

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