Sxelmatas (Mountain sheep horn rattle)

ca. 1860

Mountain sheep horn, yew, sinew, buttons

14 x 6 1/2 x 2 in. (35.56 x 16.51 x 5.08 cm)

Gift of John H. Hauberg

83.236

Provenance: Private Collection; Michael R. Johnson, Seattle, Washington, until 1974; John H. Hauberg, Seattle, Washington, 1974-1983; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Photo: Paul Macapia

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Native Visions: Northwest Coast Art, 18th Century to the Present, October 1, 1998 - January 31, 1999

University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, B.C., SALISH ART, 1980

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

Published ReferencesBrown, Steven C., Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth Through the Twentieth Century, Seattle Art Museum, 1998, pg. 59.

Feder, Norman, "Incised Relief Carving of the Halkomelem and Straits Salish", American Indian Art Magazine, vol. 8, no. 2 (Spring 1983), fig. 10.

Holm, Bill, Box of Daylight: Northwest Coast Indian Art, Seattle Art Museum, University of Washington Press, 1983, cat. no. 22.

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