Northwest Coast Figural Wood Box, probaly Salish

Private English Collection

George Terasaki, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1983

Zena Pearlstone Matthews, Color and Shape In American Indian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983, p. 8, fig. 3, illus.

Evan Mauer, The Native American Heritage, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1977, no. 418, illus..

This a superbly carved sculpture, and the excellent condition belies its age; it could date to the 2nd quarter of the 19th Century. Further the piece has impeccable provenance.
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