About the Artwork
The sides of the bowl, carved from a single piece of wood bent at the corners, illustrate a mythic being drawn from clan mythology. Its face is visible on both ends of the bowl, while its body is represented on the sides with conventionalized abstractions of body parts. The Kaigani Haida lived in villages located on the Alaskan mainland.
Bent Corner Bowl
early 19th century
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Native american
Kaigani haida
Wood (possibly red cedar and hardwood), cord
Overall: 5 × 8 5/16 × 7 1/2 inches (12.7 × 21.1 × 19.1 cm)
Wood and Woodcarving
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, Henry Ford II Fund, Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation Fund
1988.12
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
ca. 1888, collected by Thomas Lee (Westport, [Long Island], New York, USA), employee of the U.S. Department of Fisheries, on the Northwest Coast
by descent through family
purchased by (Eleanor Tulman Hancock, New York, New York, USA)
1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 64, nos 2/3 (1988): 16, fig. 12 (ill.).
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Kaigani Haida, Native American, Bent Corner Bowl, early 19th century, wood (possibly red cedar and hardwood), cord. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, Henry Ford II Fund, Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation Fund, 1988.12.
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