Zoomorph
- Museum number:
- 2-8871
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020008871
- Accession number:
- Acc.260
- Description:
- Carved wooden figure of a fish, ornamented in black and red (salmon). The interior of this figure is hollow and in it is a carved human figure. The fish was made in two pieces and glued together. Carving reference to story of fish which saved man by swallowing him and carrying him ashore inside its belly - Charles Brown, June 1964.
- Donor:
- Mrs. H. H. Bancroft
- Collection place:
- Northwest Coast, United States
- Verbatim coll. place:
- ; Northwest Coast
- Culture or time period:
- Haida and Tlingit
- Collector:
- Mrs. H. H. Bancroft
- Collection date:
- 1907
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Zoomorphic
- Accession date:
- 1907
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 56 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994)
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