Northwest Coast Figural Polychrome Wood Comb Depicting A Bear, Probably Tlingit, Alaska or Canada

wood, mineral and commercial paint.

Beaseley Collection, inventory no. E166, January 2, 1934
D'Arcy Gallerie, Maurice Bonnefoy (Director)
Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls Collection
Private Collection, acquired from the above 

Very good.
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Reference: Laguna, Fitzhugh and Crowell, 1988, p. 273; Phelps, 1976, p. 15.

Harry Beaseley was a noted collector of art from the Pacific and Northwest Coast. He established his collection as the Cranmore Ethnographical Museum at Chislehurst in Kent in 1928, and arranged for part of his collection to be housed by the British Museum, Liverpool Museum and the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.