This outsized cup or scoop displays a large Manitou effigy with overlapping references to the spirit’s eye, head and horns.

Hewn from rock maple, the cup or scoop is masterfully carved with a thinly hewn bowl and a dramatic rendering of the Manitou effigy with a hyper extended crown and a large demilune eye (see, Powers, The Evolution of the Water Manitou as Seen Through Its’ Presence In Woodlands Bowls & Ladles, Good Wood Volume 1, 2008 and Maurer Great Lakes Indian Art, Representational and Symbolic Forms in Great Lakes-Area Wooden Sculpture, 1989).