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Source Description
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.
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Document identity
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167823
label
Beaver-Shaped Bowl
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object
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1
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id
167823
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object
title
Beaver-Shaped Bowl
description
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.
date
c. 1890–1920
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CC0
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CC0
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en
wikidata
Q60746518
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Wood
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 11.3 x 27 x 18.7 cm (4 7/16 x 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
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Native North America, Northwest Coast, Alaska, Tlingit?
accession
2009.434
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Beaver-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
collection
AA - Native North America
creditline
Gift of Barry Bradley
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2026-05-29 08:38:42.597000
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167823
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Art of the Americas
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AA - Native North America
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wood
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