#tlingit art

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Raven Steals the Sun ~ a glass collaboration sculpture by Tlingit artist Preston Singletary and David Franklin

[arthistoryanimalia]

#FishFriday 🐠:

Sculpin pendant

Lingít culture, Pacific NW Coast, c.1900

Carved abalone shell, 8.8 × 4.5 × 1 cm (3 7/16 × 1 3/4 × 3/8 in.)

Princeton University Art Museum 1998-509

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Wolf Hat

Preston Singletary

Detroit Institute of Arts

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Helmet (wood, leather, copper, and seashell) of the Tlingit people, Alaska. Artist unknown; 18th century. Now in the Museum of the Americas, Madrid.

[indigenouscontemporaryart]

Nicholas Galanin | Never Forget. 2021

“The installation, entitled “Never Forget,” by artist Nicholas Galanin, is one of 13 pieces from an array of artists commissioned for the Desert X 2021 exhibition, which debuted March 12 and is set to run through July 6. It is produced by The Desert Biennial, a nonprofit group that installs recurring international art exhibitions based on the principles of the Land Art movement that emerged in the 1960s.

Galanin, a Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist and musician, goes beyond sending a message of land repatriation, however. He is working to raise funds to acquire titles to transfer lands to local Indigenous communities, and has set up a GoFundMe account to help purchase the land near “Never Forget” so it can be returned to the local Cahuilla tribe.” 

more on Galanin’s work here: https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/art-installation-calls-for-return-of-cahuilla-land?fbclid=IwAR3h9sqHNrgxDNSoVZsH_x1CnrkQ31BOGwatRSX7WmmDiQUqyc2U8o73H1o

[dailyhistoryposts]

Chilkat shirt (late 1800s) Dyed mountain goat wool and cedar bark

Currently held by the Denver Art Museum

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Tlingit Raven Mask

[arthistoryanimalia]

Honored to have spent time with these two historical Tlingit clan hats currently still at the Penn Museum. They are in the process of being repatriated to the Sitka Tribe of Alaska.

1. Ganook Hat (NA6864): Ganook (The Petrel), early 18th c. (one of the oldest known surviving Tlingit hats!)

Maple wood, paint, Opercula shell, fur, hair, spruce root; L 28 x W 27 x H 37 cm

2. Noble Killer Hat (NA11741): Killer Whale (Orca), 19th c? (collected 1926)

Spruce wood, paint, abalone shell, human hair; L 36 x W 34 x H 27.5 cm