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Interior dance screen. Serves as backdrop to dancing inside communal structures
Object Number 974-16-10/52957
Display Title Interior dance screen. Serves as backdrop to dancing inside communal structures
Descriptions
Object Description Carved and painted house screen, eagle design. Red, turquoise, and black paint used. Carved on location at the Peabody Museum by Nathan Jackson for inclusion (permanent) in Tlingit Aanee: Enter the Tlingit World, and exhibit installed during 1974, opening March, 1974, carved in Mass., but carver, tools, technique from Alaska. Interior dance screen. Serves as backdrop to dancing inside communal structures. Carved and painted, eagle design. Red, turquoise and black paint.
Classification
  • Ethnographic
Department Ethnographic
Date 1974
Artist Nathan Jackson
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Ketchikan Gateway Borough / Ketchikan
Materials Pigment Wood Western red cedar Paint
Dimensions Overall: 670.56 x 365.76 x 30.48 cm (264 x 144 x 12 in.)
Credit Line Commissioned by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1974
Provenance
Collector Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1974 - 1974)

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