Beaver Item Number: Nb1.753 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Long, wooden rectangular panel with a wooden notch at the top. The front has a carved representation of a beaver, painted dark red and black. On the back there is a small sketch and an encircled number five in pencil, as well as "BEAVER" and "Reid" written in pen.

Narrative

Walter Koerner commissioned the panels from Reid in the late 1950s or early 1960s, to be placed in his garden. The panels were part of a lean-to, made to protect some other large Northwest Coast carvings which are now part of the Museum of Anthropology's collections.