Bentwood Bowl

Item number 25.0/244 from the The Burke: University of Washington.

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Perhaps this small container, although tall and narrow, should be called a dish, since it has the undualting rim and slightly bulging sides characteristic of northern bentwood dishes. The organization of the elaborate distributive design is also dish-like, in depicting the represented animal, highly abstracted, wrapped entirely around the object. The head occupies one of the tall sides in a complicated bilaterally symmetrical composition. The two sides of the creature are shown on their respective sides of the container as asymmetrical designs, and the animal's hindquarters fill the remaining tall side, again in a symmetrical arrangement. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)