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This dramatic example puts all focus on the proportionally large-scale beaver, which sits atop a four-tiered frieze. The reverse side is equally compelling as the artisan carved with a welldefined tail running down the backside of the handle.
The scale of the effigy in relation to the handle and bowl as well as the angle relationship of
the bowl to handle is diagnostic of early-mid 17th century ladles (Prisch, Aspects of Change
in Seneca Iroquois Ladles AD 1600-1900, 1982). This isone of the earliest,
non-excavated ladles extant.
Originally purchased from a Poughkeepsie, NY auction in 1971. |
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