Tlingit Beaver Fish Dish
Hand carved and stained alder wood with shell and bone inlay, late 19th/early 20th century. Carved wooden bowl, representing beaver, with face at one end and limbs carved in relief on sides. The open mouth has bone teeth and there are also pieces of bone set into the rim. Possibly carved in the late 1800s at the Sheldon Jackson School in Sitka, Alaska, by either Augustus Bean or Rudolf Walton.
Provenance: James R. (Jim) Houston Estate
Size: 3 ¼ h x 5 ½ w x 9 d
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