ƒ KNIFE ALASKA TLINGIT KNIFE KNIFE Height: 28... Lot 15

ƒ KNIFE ALASKA TLINGIT KNIFE KNIFE Height: 28 cm. (11 in.) US$11,000-13,000 PROVENANCE English Private Collection, Cornwall English Private Collection Channing, Dale, Throckmorton Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, acquired from the latter in the 1970s fn James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, acquired from the latter on 14 October 1988 EXHIBITION Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago International Antiques Show, October 1988 Cf. for a Tlingit knife of very high plastic quality with a sculpted pommel with a stylised zoomorphic wingspan, like our own, see the one in the former Robert and Lisa Sainsbury collection, now in the collections of the University of East Anglia, inv. no. UEA 126 and reproduced in Hooper, S., Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection. Pacifc, African and Native North American Art, vol. II, New Haven, 1997, p. 271, fg. 254. To bid, please consult the "Auction Information" section.