Augustus Bean & Rudolph Walton Tlingit Frog Feast Bowl
Augustus Bean & Rudolph Walton (19/20th Cent. Tlingit) Frog Feast Bowl Carved Wood 5.5"x18.5"x11". Exceptional and large carved wood formline motifs with inlaid operculum shells and glass trade beads. Unsigned. Some scattering surface scratching and minor wear from age. It has a crack repair to one end that may be original to its manufacture with some loss to inlaid beading. Early 20th century, Tlingit. There are only a few examples of this form know to exist with one being in the Sheldon Jackson Museum collection in Sitka, Alaska.
Augustus Bean & Rudolph Walton (19/20th Cent. Tlingit) Frog Feast Bowl Carved Wood 5.5"x18.5"x11". Exceptional and large carved wood formline motifs with inlaid operculum shells and glass trade beads. Unsigned. Some scattering surface scratching and minor wear from age. It has a crack repair to one end that may be original to its manufacture with some loss to inlaid beading. Early 20th century, Tlingit. There are only a few examples of this form know to exist with one being in the Sheldon Jackson Museum collection in Sitka, Alaska.
