МАЭ № 2539-16

Vessel in the form of river beaver

Chugach

first half of the 19th century

Russian circumnavigations and half round-the-world sea expeditions

wood, paint

length 33.5 cm, width 21.5 cm, height 7.5 cm

The bowl is carved like a beaver with characteristics unique to that animal: strong front incisors in a half-opened mouth and a reticular tail. This bowl was published in the Museum Tlingit Catalog as an object of debatable ethnic origin (Tlingit 2007: 58).

Ethnography of America