Zoomorphic vessel (bear) ·  Canada, Haida · ID: 3036648

Description

wood, dark brown patina, unpainted, deepening in the back, slightly dam. (tail), abrasion of paint;
presumably a grease dish, in which the oil obtained from olachen or candlefish was dispensed during festivities.

Littérature comparée

Haberland, Wolfgang, Die Kunst des Indianischen Amerika, Zürich 1971, p. 86 f. Boden, Gertrud, Nordamerika, Die Sammlung des Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums, Köln 1995, ill. 222