An early Tlingit dagger
The double-edged hand-forged iron blade with pronounced median ridge, constructed as one piece, the grip wrapped in a pad of woven (moose?) hair covered in hide, the pommel blade subtly worked to represent the head of a dogfish, piercings and a simple slit mouth for facial details.
length 22 5/8in
length 22 5/8in
Sold for
US$ 8,750
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Cf:
See Vaughan, Thomas and Holm, Bill, 1982, pps. 70 & 71, figs. 34 & 35 for two early Tlingit steel daggers with stylized dogfish or shark pommels, both from the Edward Fast Collection, acquired in the 1860s yet described as "quite old when collected." Similar early types are known in the collections of the Museo de América in Madrid and the Kunstkamera (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography) in Saint Petersburg.
Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American
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