Abalone shell
Mid 19th century
Height 2 3/8" Width 2 3/8"
Provenance: Private collection, WA
Myron Eells D.D, Seattle
A rare type of ornament that to my knowledge has never appeared in the market place and collected in the 19th century by Myron Eells D.D. and illustrated in his sketchbooks.
Publication: Myron Eells and the Puget Sound Indians by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, Superior Publishing Co: 1976 p. 37.
Abalone shell
Mid 19th century
Height 2 3/8" Width 2 3/8"
Provenance: Private collection, WA
Myron Eells D.D, Seattle
A rare type of ornament that to my knowledge has never appeared in the market place and collected in the 19th century by Myron Eells D.D. and illustrated in his sketchbooks.
Publication: Myron Eells and the Puget Sound Indians by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, Superior Publishing Co: 1976 p. 37.