Small wooden bowl carved as a beaver with forearms and face carved on one end and suggestion of tail form on the other end. [CAK 17/08/2009]

Collection type: Object
Description: Small wooden bowl carved as a beaver with forearms and face carved on one end and suggestion of tail form on the other end. [CAK 17/08/2009]
Long description: Description taken from Conservation Card by Birgitte Speake - 18 cm long 9 cm wide wooden carved bowl. Beaver face with two supporting front legs. The opposite end is shaped like a beak. (Birgitte Speake March 1986) [LKG 29/01/2009]
Geographical reference: Canada
Northern America > North America > Canada; British Columbia Nootka Sound Vancouver Island NW Coast
Cultural groups: Nuu-chah-nulth; Kwakwaka'wakw
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Frederick Dally; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Possibly before 1870
Date collected: 1862 - 1870
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Pegged
Dimensions: Length x Width x Height 170 x 90 x 72 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.68.58 PR no.: [104/ 12099]
Research and responses: Note that the fraction number above is the correct number for this object even if it is no longer visible written on the object or on the label. This is because all the items listed on pages 162 - 170 of the green book are numbered ?/ 12099. Previously entered as Nootka [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]