box;
chest
- Museum number
- Am1976,03.40.a-d
- Description
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Four sides of a bentwood kerfed chest; painted with black and red abstract designs representing a crest probably with mammalian features.
- Production date
- 1800-1875 (?)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.50 centimetres (a)
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Diameter: 0.80 centimetres (b)
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Diameter: 1 centimetres (c)
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Diameter: 1.40 centimetres (d)
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Height: 40 centimetres (a)
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Height: 40.70 centimetres (b)
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Height: 42.70 centimetres (c)
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Height: 38.50 centimetres (d)
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Length: 78.50 centimetres (a)
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Length: 78 centimetres (b)
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Length: 47 centimetres (c)
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Length: 46.40 centimetres (d)
- Curator's comments
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Comments from Lyle Wilson on the 8th October 2007. This box was produced by the same Tsimshian artist that created the screens at the University of British Columbia, as diagnosed by the small face designs. The very broad black formline suggests that artist was used to working at a much larger scale, and transfered proportions from the screens to the box.
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The long box sides, and one box end, are published in McLennan and Duffek 'The Transforming Image' (2000) p 169. They note that it is a Tsimshian chest, from the (Haida) site of Skedans and that it is now disassembled. (JCK)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1976
- Acquisition notes
- This object was purchased from Robert Bruce Inverarity in 1976. In his accompanying notes (Eth. Doc. 1225), he records that he collected the object himself, as well as a number of similar boxes from the Queen Charlotte Islands during a commission for the Canadian National Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1976,03.40.a-d
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Item 40 (Inverarity collection number)
