Chest and lid with painted carving
Chest and lid with painted carving
Chest and lid with painted carving
Chest and lid with painted carving
Chest and lid with painted carving
Chest and lid with painted carving
Chest and lid with painted carving
Chest and lid with painted carving
Chest and lid with painted carving
Chest and lid with painted carving
Chest and lid with painted carving
Chest and lid with painted carving

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Chest and lid with painted carving,

19th century

Lingít
PU 5256
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Information

Title
Chest and lid with painted carving
Dates

19th century

Medium
Wood with red, black, and sea-green paint with cedar or spruce stitching
Dimensions
43.5 × 38.5 × 39.5 cm (17 1/8 × 15 3/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Object Number
PU 5256
Place Collected

North America, possibly Shtax'héen Kwáan (Wrangell)

Marks/Labels/Seals
Tag reading 259 PU 5256 on inside of lid PU 5256 written on top of lid
Culture
Native American, Lingít
Type
lids, bentwood, chests
Materials
paint, wood, pigment, fiber
Subject
frogs, crests, ravens, abstraction

Collected by Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, in or after 1877; Given to Princeton Theological Seminary, 1879-1882; Given to E. M. Museum (Princeton Museum of Natural History), 1882

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