Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; possibly collected by James Gaston Brown (1827-1905, a merchant in St. Louis, Missouri, and New York City) during travel to Alaska in the 1880s; inherited by his grandson, designer and architectural historian Lars Gaston Axelsson DeLagerberg (1887-1962); donated to MAI by Lars DeLagerberg's widow Lucy Wallace DeLagerberg (1884-1965) in 1965 in memory of Lars DeLagerberg.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Haida
- Possible owner
- James Gaston Brown (James G. Brown), Non-Indian, 1827-1905
- Previous owner
- Lars Gaston Axelsson DeLagerberg, Non-Indian, 1887-1962
- Lucy Wallace DeLagerberg (Mrs. Lars Gaston DeLagerberg), Non-Indian, 1884-1965
- Donor
- Lucy Wallace DeLagerberg (Mrs. Lars Gaston DeLagerberg), Non-Indian, 1884-1965
- Honoree
- Lars Gaston Axelsson DeLagerberg, Non-Indian, 1887-1962
- Object Name
- Figural group
- Media/Materials
- Argillite, ivory
- Techniques
- Carved, inlaid
- Dimensions
- 23.5 x 8 x 18 cm
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
