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Chief's Head Canoe

(1919 – 2002)
1989
Place of CreationSouth Carolina, United States
Medium/TechniqueClay
DimensionsHeight x length: 14 × 33 × 10.2 cm (5 1/2 × 13 × 4 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds by exchange from the John Axelrod Collection, Gift of Bloomingdale's, H.E. Bolles Fund, Gift of Mrs F.O. North in memory of Thomas L. Sprague, Bequest of Charles Hitchcock Tyler, and Gift of S. Richard Fuller in memory of his wife, Luce Derby Fuller
Accession number2021.793
On View
On view
ClassificationsCeramics
ProvenanceBy 1997/8, Arthur Greenberg, Rye, NH; 2021, sold by Greenberg to the MFA. (Accession date: December 15, 2021)
Necklace
Sara Young
before 1992
Sampler
Sara Elcock
18th century
Walter Ostrom
1990
Malcolm Wright
1993
Malcolm Wright
1993
Storage jar with lid
Stephen Merritt
1996
Pitcher
late 19th century
Water jar
Edna Romero
2001
Untitled vessel
Christine McHorse
about 1985–90
Vase
Arthur E. Baggs
1926