Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025
Lot 163
A Slavey quill belt
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000
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Description
A Slavey quill belt
Northwest Canada / Subarctic
buckskin, white glass beads, plain and purple dyed quill, the tassels with further quill, bone and wool, one end with a bone toggle,
59.5cm long, 35cm high, with a wall mount. (2)
Provenance
James T. Hooper Collection, UK.
Bonhams, Tribal Art, London, 11 Dec 2003, lot 201.
John and Valeria Arieta, London.
Richard Hook Collection, UK.
Published
Steven Phelps. Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, 1976, p. 346, no. 1643.