ƒ DAGUE TLINGIT DAGGER REGION KLUKWAN, ALASKA Height:... Lot 13

ƒ DAGUE TLINGIT DAGGER REGION KLUKWAN, ALASKA Height: 53 cm. (21 in.) US$11,000-13,000 PROVENANCE Howard B. Rolof, Soulcatcher Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia Tom & Kathy Julian, The Original Trading Post, Inc, Santa Fe, New Mexico, acquired from the latter James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, acquired from the latter on October 9, 1982 BIBLIOGRAPHY Goldfein, R.P., American Indian Art Magazine, vol. IV, No. 4, Fall 1981, advertisement H. B. Rolof, Soulcatcher Gallery Cf. for a comparable Tlingit dagger, see that in the former Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, now in the University of East Anglia Collections, inv. no. UEA 126 and published in Hooper, S., Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection. Pacifc, African and Native North American Art, vol. II, New Haven, 1997, p. 272, fg. 255. For a Tlingit dagger with a pommel carved with a bear's head, very similar to ours, see the Penn Museum copy , inv. no. NA 1286, reproduced in Witthoft, J. and Eyman, F., Metallurgy of the Tlingit, Dene, and Eskimo, in Expedition, vol. 11, issue no. 3, Philadelphia, Spring 1969, pp. 13 and 18. The known repertoire of Tlingit knives and daggers reflects a great variety. Used as weapons of war or ceremonial weapons, most are characterized by their high plastic quality. This is the result of a combination of two talents: on the one hand, the work of an artist blacksmith, in charge of forging a blade of great elegance, and on the other hand, the refined and sophisticated production of the handle by a master carver. The latter decorated the pommel with a representation of the clan emblem, which, depending on the case, could be a bear, a wolf, an eagle, an owl or any other totemic animal. To bid, please consult the "Sales Information" section.