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X̱aat s'áaxw (spruce root hat) with Gonakadet (Seawolf),
before 1882
Lingít
PU 5154
Information
Title
X̱aat s'áaxw (spruce root hat) with Gonakadet (Seawolf)
Dates
before 1882
Medium
Spruce root twining with blue, red, and black paint
Dimensions
h. 21.3 cm., w. 38.8 cm., d. 37.3 cm. (8 3/8 x 15 1/4 x 14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Lent by the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Object Number
PU 5154
Place Collected
North America, United States, Alaska
Culture
Subject
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
- Erna Gunther, Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Exhibit at Seattle's World Fair Fine Arts Pavilion, April 21-October 21 (Seattle: Century 21 Exposition, 1962)., cat. no. 16, p. 16 (illus.)
- Erna Gunther, "West Coast Indian Art Goes to the Fair," The Beaver: A Magazine of the North (Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Co., Spring 1963): 4-13., p. 4–13, p. 8 (illus.)
- Erna Gunther, "Indian Woodcarvers of the Pacific Northwest," Delphian quarterly 48, no. 1 (Winter, 1965): p. 1-5, 29., p. 6, p. 7 (illus.)
- Helen H. Marr, Voices of the Ancestors: Music in the Life of the Northwest Coast Indians (Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum, 1986)., p. 21