Oil Dish in form of a Seal (made for sale)
Haida
First Nation
Northwest Coast
collected 1820-1860
Alder wood with faint traces of pigment
Overall: 4 5/16 × 13 × 4 3/4 in. (11 × 33 × 12 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly
22.3.1896
Geography
Place Made: Haida Gwaii, Canada, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Course History
ITAL 14, Introduction to Italian Culture, Tania Convertini, Fall 2021
Art History 38.04, Food & Art: Global History, Nick Camerlenghi, Fall 2023
Exhibition History
Peoples and Cultures of the Northwest Coast and Arctic Regions, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-October 14, 1990.
Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Arctic Region, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Native American Studies 21/Anthropology 40, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 30-December 20, 1992.
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.
Publication History
Tamara Northern, Native American Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, 1985, p. 9, no. 6.
Provenance
Collected by "an old sea captain," about 1820-1860; to General John Hewston, California; bequeathed to his niece, Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly (1851-1927), West Newton, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1922.
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