Dla'ehl (Interior housepost)

ca. 1800

Native American, Kwakwaka'wakw

Gwat'sinuxw

Gusgimukw?

Red cedar, paint, preservative coating

72 1/16 x 26 x 9 13/16 in. (183 x 66 x 25 cm)

Gift of John H. Hauberg

83.242

Provenance: Captain D.F. Tozier {collected in 1910 from a Koskimo village in the Quatsino Sound Area of northern Vancouver Island, B.C.}; Northwest Historical Corporation, Bellevue, Washington, until 1979; John H. Hauberg, Seattle, Washington, 1979-1983; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Photo: Paul Macapia

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Box of Daylight: Northwest Coast Indian Art, September 15, 1983–January 8, 1984

Published ReferencesThe Spirit Within: Northwest Coast Native Art from the John H. Hauberg Collection, Seattle Art Museum, 1995, pg. 246

Coe, Ralph T., Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976, no. 244a

Brown, Steven C., Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth Through the Twentieth Century, Seattle Art Museum, 1998, pg. 43

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