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Headdress frontlet

Photo: Paul Macapia

Headdress frontlet

ca. 1860

Alder wood, paint, sheet copper
8 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (20.96 x 19.05 x 6.99 cm)
Gift of John H. Hauberg
91.1.37
Provenance: [Carlebach Gallery, New York, New York], in 1962; John H. Hauberg, Seattle, Washington, 1962-1991; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Photo: Paul Macapia
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistoryWhitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, Two Hundred Years Of North American Indian Art, 1971

London, England, Kansas City, Missouri, Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art, 1976-77

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Box of Daylight, September 15, 1983 - January 8, 1984

Bellingham, Washington, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Arts Of A Vanished Era, June 12 - October 31, 1968
Published ReferencesThe Spirit Within: Northwest Coast Native Art from the John H. Hauberg Collection, Seattle Art Museum, 1995, pp. 156-157

Holm, Bill, Box of Daylight: Northwest Coast Indian Art, Seattle Art Museum, University of Washington Press, 1983, no. 9, p. 23, illus.

Coe, Ralph T., Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977, no. 293, p. 141, illus.

Cover of Apollo Magazine, September, 1976

Feder, Norman, Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art, Praeger in association with Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971, p. 41, #25;


Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Arts of a Vanished Era, Bellingham, Washington, 1968, p. 45; Feder, Norman, American Indian Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1965, pl. 42.

Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.

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