МАЭ № 536-4

Ceremonial bowl in the shape of a merganser duck

Chugach

early 19th c.

Russian circumnavigations and half round-the-world sea expeditions

wood, paint

length 49 cm, width 29 cm, height 17 cm

This bowl was carved to look like a merganser duck. The head of this bird has a crest, and the end of its beak has a toothed form that enables it to easily hold a fish that it has caught. This bowl is decorated with an “eye ornament” which is characteristic of the Tlingit culture and that of other Indians from the Northwest Coast of North America.

Ethnography of America