Carving
NA8500
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA8500 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Sitka |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Locus | Tluknax.adi Clan, Sitka Whale House |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Shell | Wood | Pigment | Hair |
| Technique | Carved |
| Description | Land Otterman figure from the prow of a war canoe, never used in battle. Carved for a canoe for Jinsatiyi of the Land Otter House, recognizing his valor. Made for Louis Shotridge's mother's father of the Sitka Whale House of the Tuknax.adi Clan, who was also named tdax.hin. Carved from one piece of cedar wood with eyes made of abalone shell. The face is painted black, green and red and the body is painted black. Hair is set into plugs around the head. (Museum Journal XIII.1. pp. 55-59) |
| Length | 96.52 cm |
| Width | 33.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
| Other Number | CH1 - Other Number |
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