Tlingit, Haida or Tsimshian (attributed)
Rattle Carving (human and frog designs)
Haida/Tlingit, 1833-1866
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Tlingit, Haida or Tsimshian (attributed)
Rattle Carving (human and frog designs)
Haida/Tlingit, 1833-1866
Physical Qualities
Wood, polychrome, 4 1/8 × 2 × 2 1/2 in. (10.5 × 5.1 × 6.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1959.11
Fragment probably from a bird-shaped rattle; crouching male figure with frog grasping his knees and shoulders; man and frog are tongue-to-tongue.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1959; Alan Wurtzburger, Baltimore. Likely collected by Wurtzburgers in 1956 in Russia (from Pacific NW coast dealers/descendants of 19th century Russian seal hunters)
Inscribed: None
