МАЭ № 571-34

Bowl in the shape of a merganser duck

Kodiak Eskimos

до 1845 г.

I.G. Voznesenskii's expedition

wood, paint

length 38.5 cm, width 21 cm, height 14.2 cm

“The islanders make and decorate wooden bowls, dishes in some way or another. They find rocks for paints in various places on the island or get them from the mainland of America by trading, then burn them, crush them and dilute the sediment with fish roe or blood; or sometimes with water, so that it is not too thick” (Davydov 1812: 104).

Ethnography of America