Rare Sewing Kit
Tahltan people, northwest corner of British Columbia, Canada, d. 19th c.
Seal gut, trade silk, and trade beads
20” x 10¾” (50.80 x 27.31 cm)
SOLD
Truly fine ethnographic objects serve a dual function, namely, as testaments to the remarkable artistic faculties of their cultures of origin but also as objects of beauty unto themselves, quite untrammeled by limits of time or cultural understanding. Such is the case with this rare Tahltan sewing kit, an eminently utilitarian article of 19th-century manufacture that somehow succeeds in being a striking element of modern art.