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  • Sculpture

    Object Details

    Culture/People

    Colville

    Artist/Maker

    Ted Palmanteer (Theodore Duane Palmanteer/Ted D. Tomeo-Palmanteer), Colville/Niimíipuu (Nez Perce), b. 1943

    Previous owner

    Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-

    IACB source

    DOI Indian Craft Shop (Department of the Interior Indian Craft Shop)

    Collection History

    Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Department of the Interior Indian Craft Shop (Washington, DC) in 1965; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.

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    Date created

    1965

    Catalog Number

    25/5419

    Barcode

    255419.000

    Object Type

    Sculpture/Carving/Figures

    Title

    Owl

    Object Name

    Sculpture

    Media/Materials

    Steel

    Techniques

    Cut, cutout, welded

    Dimensions

    41.9 x 21.7 x 9.4 cm

    Place

    Omak, Colville Reservation; Okanogan County; Washington; USA

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    On View

    NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, Animals

    Data Source

    National Museum of the American Indian

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6c2353d05-85dc-432d-97a8-6ae77ca05287

    Record ID

    NMAI_271284

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