| Object Number |
NA4972 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Chilkat | Tlingit |
| Provenience |
United States of America | Alaska |
| Culture Area |
Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section |
American |
| Materials |
Abalone Shell | Wood | Hair | Hide | Copper |
| Technique |
Inlaid |
| Iconography |
Crane | Canoe |
| Description |
Shaman's rattle; in the shape of cranes and a canoe; old repairs with glue, nails, and inlaid copper strips. One inlay eye of abalone shell missing. |
| Height |
18 |
| Length |
38 |
| Width |
12 |
| Credit Line |
Purchased from G. T. Emmons, 1916 |
| Other Number |
71 - Other Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Kaplan, Susan A., and Kristin J. Barsness. Raven's Journey. The University Museum, 1986. See: p. 198, fig. 229 |
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| American Indian Life: 1776-1976. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1976. See: p. 25 |
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| Duff, Wilson, and Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Ltd. Arts of the Raven: Masterworks by the Northwest Coast Indian. Vancouver, BC: Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Ltd., 1967. See: Cat No 67 |
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| Wardwell, Allen. Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and Its Art. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1996. See: p. 268, fig. 408 |
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| Harner, Michael J., and Albert B. Elsasser. Art of the Northwest Coast: An Exhibition at the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley March 26 - October 17, 1965. University of California - Berkeley, 1965. See: p. 29 |
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