Skip to main content
Exhibition History
ProvenancePrivate collection, Midwest; private collection, New Jersey; Sotheby's, New York City; George Shaw, Aspen, Colorado
BibliographySotheby's. Sale 4842. 24 April 1982, lot 433.
Advertisement for George Shaw. American Indian Art Magazine. Vol. 20, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 13.
Vincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.319.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 350.
Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
Feast Bowl Fragment
Datec. 1890
MediumWood, pigments
DimensionsOverall: 16 3/4 × 41 in. (42.5 × 104.1 cm)
Object numberT0524
Credit LineLoan from the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust
Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor, NYC
Label TextThis feast bowl fragment, one side of a central bowl that had attached flanking bowls, originally measured over 14 feet long. It represents the Sisiutl, an especially powerful serpent-like being associated with warriors. The right to use a great Sisiutl feast bowl was inherited through marriage among noble Kwakiutl families. It communicated the owner’s rights and privileges as a high ranking member of the community.Exhibition History
ProvenancePrivate collection, Midwest; private collection, New Jersey; Sotheby's, New York City; George Shaw, Aspen, Colorado
BibliographySotheby's. Sale 4842. 24 April 1982, lot 433.
Advertisement for George Shaw. American Indian Art Magazine. Vol. 20, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 13.
Vincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.319.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 350.
On View
Not on viewc. 1780
1400-1500
