Ear Ornaments
Lott Family, Tlingit
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
collected 1920-1937
Red yarn, either dyed goat wood or imported yarn
Overall: 22 1/16 in. (56 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Meltzer and the Meltzer Gallery
159.1.14285
Geography
Place Made: Wrangell, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Exhibition History
The Art of the Northwest Coast, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 25/Native American Studies 49, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 25-May 18, 2003.
Provenance
Perhaps Tyeen Lott, Great-great grandmother of Sarah Shadesty (Mother Lott's mother), Wrangell, Alaska; sold to Axel Rasmussen (about 1887-1945), probably late late 1920's-1937; [possibly collected by Earl Stendahl (1887-1966) [dealer], Los Angeles, California]; sold to Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; sold to Doris Meltzer (1908-1977), Meltzer Gallery, New York; given to present collection, 1959.
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