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Photo: Paul Macapia
Headdress frontlet
Photo: Paul Macapia

Headdress frontlet

Dateca. 1860
Object number91.1.37
Provenance[Carlebach Gallery, New York, New York], in 1962; John H. Hauberg, Seattle, Washington, 1962-1991; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Photo CreditPhoto: Paul Macapia
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, 1968Published 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.
Credit LineGift of John H. Hauberg
Dimensions8 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (20.96 x 19.05 x 6.99 cm)
MediumAlder wood, paint, sheet copper
Photo: Paul Macapia
First Nations, Nuxalk
ca. 1880
Object number: 91.1.36
Male figure
Object number: 81.17.1
Photo: Paul Macapia
Charles Edenshaw
ca. 1885
Object number: 91.1.127
Qwa.a gyaa.angaa (model totem pole)
Charles Edenshaw
ca. 1885
Object number: 91.1.129
Gaylth (dish)
ca. 1860
Object number: 91.1.52
Photo: Paul Macapia
ca. 1890
Object number: 91.1.48
Mirror:  Maenad and Doe
Etruscan
ca. 470 B.C.
Object number: 48.23
Photo: Susan Cole
Haisla
ca. 1830
Object number: 91.1.39
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Persian
12th to early 13th century
Object number: 38.139
Chinese
8th century
Object number: 2010.37.3
Photo: Paul Macapia
ca. 1885
Object number: 91.1.43