МАЭ № 6708-6

Stylized “tree” with a bird figure

Kodiak Eskimos

19th century

wood, paint, cloth, woolen thread, caribou hair, sinew, iron

height 22 cm, diameter 2.2 cm, length of the bird 4.8 cm, width of the bird 2.3 cm; base: length 7.5 cm, width 6.5 cm

This “tree” and bird figures were made as souvenirs intended to be sold to Europeans.

Ethnography of America