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Tsimshian Comb

Auction Closed

May 24, 03:58 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Tsimshian Comb


Height: 5 in (12.7 cm)

The reverse inscribed in black ink: "N.W.COAST AMERICA. [/] HOOPER. COLL. No 1099.A."; "H.1542"; and "A76190."

James T. Hooper, Arundel, acquired in Bristol in 1933
Christie’s, London, American Indian Art from the James Hooper Collection, November 9, 1976, lot 199
Adelaide de Menil, New York, acquired at the above auction
Sotheby’s, New York, December 2, 1998, lot 434, consigned by the above
George Everett Shaw, Basalt, Colorado, acquired at the above auction
Acquired from the above on September 16, 2003

Steven Phelps, Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas: The James Hooper Collection, London, 1976, p. 323, pl. 191, cat. no. 1542 (illustrated), and p. 445, cat. no. 1542 (listed)

Harmer Johnson, Guide to the Arts of the Americas, New York, 1992, p. 204