Bird shaped (loon with otter and 2 frogs on back); carving of sparrow hawk on underside; painted red, blue and black.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Musical rattles
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Rattle of a medicine man. "Only important people can use such a rattle" (remarks by Charles Brown).
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 31 centimeters
Comment:
GARISH." Fide Charles Brown, June 1964: name "sey-sux" (rattle). Remarks: Cf. "Indian Art in America" by F.J. Dockstader, London; Studio Books, 1961, pl. 82.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1963-1964 #9: UC San Francisco Medical Center (September 3, 1963–October 11, 1963), S1967-1968 #52: Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor (December 28, 1967–March 19, 1968), S1972-1973 #15: unknown borrower (October 20, 1972–March 30, 1973), and S1974-1975 #81: Mt. Diablo Unified School District (April 15, 1975–June 11, 1976)