| Object ID |
T0184a-b |
| Object Name |
Bent-Corner Chest |
| Description |
Haida Bent-Corner Chest with shell inlay;
Medium/Materials: Yellow cedar, red cedar, black, red, blue paint, red turban snail opercula shells, eagle quills;
Marks: Inside, in black paint: "5182"; Inside lid, in black paint: "5182" and on tape, in pencil: "782"; |
| Artist |
Edenshaw, Albert Edward (possibly) |
| Dimensions |
H-18 W-18 L-31 inches |
| Early Date |
1830 |
| Late Date |
1860 |
| Medium |
red turban snail opercula shells/eagle quills |
| Place of Origin |
Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada |
| People |
Haida/ |
| Provenance |
(1) Alton L. Dickerman. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Collected in Sitka, Alaska, ca. 1883;
(2) Miss Foster B. Dickerman. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Given to Mrs. A.B. Taylor in 1928.;
(3) Mrs. Alice Bemis Taylor. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Given to Taylor Museum in 1954.;
(4) Taylor Museum. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Accessioned in 1954, catalogue card 5182.;
(5) Eugene V. Thaw 1993.;
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| History |
Scholarly Attributions:
[1] George MacDonald, Director of Canadian Museum of Civilization - 9/7/95: "Chest is either Bella Bella or Ft. Simpson, British Columbia." [2] Wright, Robin. NORTHERN HAIDA MASTER CARVERS. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001, p.138 "Nisyoq's [fig.3.26] chest, however, does bear a striking resemblance to a chest in the Thaw Collection at the Fenimore House Museum in New York State (fig.3.27) [p.141] In particular, the stylized faces in the bodies on the two-step structure (double-eye) sides (see Holm 1997) of both chests and in the mouth on the one-step structure (single-eye) side of Nisyoq's chest are alike in the form of the eye sockets, eyebrows, nose, and lips. Also, the rounded shapes of the "salmon-trout-head" inner ovoids in the upper corners are much alike, and the painting on the end panels is similar in the use of cross-hatching. // These two chests are similar in some ways to a Haida chest now at the Burke Museum (fig.3.28) that Emmons collected from Coudahwot, a chief of the Tlingit
Ganakhtedi (Gaanax.teidi) clan at Klukwan, Alaska. Emmons was told that Coudahwot had acquired this chest from Haidas of the Queen Charlotte Islands. The Burke Museum chest, however, shows a more angular structure to the primary formlines that form the body, whereas the Thaw and Nisyoq chests have softer, more curvilinear lines in this area (Holm 1987: 148-149). // At present there are no chests that can be firmly attributed to Albert Edward Edenshaw, though if Barbeau's notes are accurate, it may be that he made Nisyoq's chest and the Thaw chest. It is possible that Nisyoq's chest was simply a gift to him from Albert Edward Edenshaw and was not actually made by Edenshaw, since the name of the giver of the gift would no doubt have been more important for Nisyoq to remember and report to Barbeau than the name of the maker of the chest. Those who knew Albert Edward Edenshaw credited his fame as an artist not to chest making but to his skill as a totem pole carver." |
| Used |
Haida |
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