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Beaver-Shaped Bowl
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About this work
Bowls were a major Northwest Coast art form, used in many contexts including potlatch feasts that validated the rights and privileges of wealthy noble families. When Euro-American settlement forced a change from traditional to cash economies in the early 1900s, Indigenous carvers turned their skills to creating bowls like this example for the outside market.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBeaver-Shaped Bowl, c. 1890–1920. Native North America, Northwest Coast, Alaska, Tlingit?. Wood; overall: 11.3 x 27 x 18.7 cm (4 7/16 x 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Barry Bradley, 2009.434
