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Rudolph Walton was a Tlingit carver who operated a store in Sitka Alaska, ca. 1890s to 1920. Walton was a well-known Tlingit artist of the Kiks.ádi clan (Raven-Frog) of Sitka, Alaska, and a prolific maker of silver spoons with carved figural handles and sea lion feast bowls. The feast bowls were often copied by other makers, perhaps because he taught carving to Alaska indigenous students at the Sheldon Jackson boarding school. The bowls are easily identified for their robust shapes, inlaid ivory seed beads, and deep, dark stained coloration. Walton was the carver of a pair of Kaagwaantaan house posts for a 1904 potlatch, that are currently in the Alaska State Museum.

Born: 1867
Died: 1951