Oil Dish in the Form of a Frog
possibly Tlingit
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
collected 1903-1904
Wood, walrus ivory, and abalone shell
Overall: 9 7/16 × 5 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (24 × 14 × 11.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lt. Col. Alfred T. Clifton, Class of 1927P
42.15.7810
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
Exhibition History
People of Potlatch, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 10-October 25, 1988.
Provenance
Collected by Lt. Col. Alfred Theodore Clifton (1875-1944) with the U.S. Army Signal Corps aboard the cable ship Burnside, St. Michael, Alaska, 1903-1904; given to present collection (through his son, Alfred Theodore Clifton, Jr. (1906-1996), Class of 1927), 1942.
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