About the Artwork
Box
ca. 1825
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Native american
Tlingit
Spruce root, western cedar, yew wood, and animal sinew
Overall: 10 1/2 × 16 3/4 × 13 3/4 inches (26.7 × 42.5 × 34.9 cm)
Wood and Woodcarving
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, funds from Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Day, and Founders Junior Council
1995.17
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
1883, collected by Foster B. Dickerman (Sitka, Alaska, USA)
by descent to Alton Dickerson
1929, willed to Ellie Jeffers Taylor for the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
1994, deaccessioned by the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
1994, purchased by Eugene Thaw, (Cooperstown (?) and New York, New York, USA)
1995-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) via (Jonathan Holstein, Cazenovia, New York, USA), Eugene Thaw's agent
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Tlingit, Native American, Box, ca. 1825, spruce root, western cedar, yew wood, and animal sinew. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, funds from Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Day, et al., 1995.17.
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