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Important wooden feast bowl carved in the form of a bird and human figure - Donald Ellis Gallery
Top view of an elegant wooden feast bowl carved in the form of a bird and human figure - Donald Ellis Gallery

Grease Bowl

Coast Tsimshian or Haisla
Central Coast, British Columbia

ca. 1800-1830

wood, traces of red paint

width: 9 ½"

Inventory # N4296

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Provenance

Collected in Southeast Alaska before 1882 by C.E.S Wood.

Related Examples

Musee de l’Homme, Paris, Cat. No. MH 47.47.1 – See: Brown, Steven C. Spirits of the Water: Native Art Collected On Expeditions to Alaska and British Columbia 1774 – 1910. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, pg. 184, pl. 156

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Cat No. 2539-15 – See: Berezkin, Yuri E. (ed). Tlingit: Catalogue of the Kunstkamera. St. Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2007, pg 59, pl. 50

Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Cat. No. 4108 – See: Inverarity, Robert B. Art of the Northwest Coast Indians. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950, pl. 196

National Museum of Natural History, Washington, Cat. No. 178/961 - See: Sturtevant, William (ed.) Boxes and Bowls: Decorated Containers by Nineteenth Century Haida, Tlingit, Bella Bella, and Tsimshian Indian Artists. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974, pl. 26 (a later rattle/bird-form bowl)