Round silver brooch, or pendant, depicting Tchumos? (salt-water beaver). Animal faces outwards, large eyes to either side, rounded nose with curled nostrils over a wide mouth showing top and bottom teeth with large incisors at centre. Cross hatched tail is placed at bottom centre between feet and legs. The back has a brooch pin as well as a loop, for hanging it as a pendant on a chain. HAIDA ART / Reid inscription on back.

• Narrative

  Item number 94 in the catalogue "Bill Reid: a Retrospective Exhibition" (1974; Vancouver Art Gallery).

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• Type of Item brooch
• Culture Haida
• Material silver metal
• Measurements height 4.5 cm, width 4.5 cm, depth 0.6 cm (overall)

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• Creator Bill Reid
• Previous Owner Margaret Hess
• Received from Margaret Hess

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• Made in British Columbia

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• Creation Date during 1954
• Ownership Date before August 15, 2017
• Acquisition Date on August 15, 2017

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• Item Classes metalwork
• Condition good
• Current Location Case 16
• Accession Number 3258/0002