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It does look to me like a bow, as in bow-and-arrow, and that would be my guess - a warrior, not a musician. But there is a bow-like musical...
I don't see anything unreasonable in the seller's story. My guess is it might have migrated up to Alaska, after being made by a member of one of...
I wouldn't go that early; late 90s at the earliest, and possibly as recent as this year.
It is from a time-period when one would expect a signature; though it is often not easy to tell what the lack of signature means. Possibly...
Though there were some who kept the flame alive. And in some areas, carving souvenirs for sale to tourists was encouraged while carving for...
If you like them as kitsch I'm not going to argue, and the one shown might be 50s to 60s; but as far as being made by folks connected to the...
The name - I wanted to separate my ebay buying ID from one I used for posting on the old ebay boards; and I was very active in recognizing fake...
He did some nice metalwork. I found a very sweet bracelet by Cheryl, who didn't usually work in metal at that time - the inscription states that...
Another thought: I've had good luck putting smelly books in a box with some wadded-up newspaper.
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Wadhams, a good old Kwakwaka'wakw family. Younger member Cheryl Wadhams is notable for being one of the small number of female Northwest Coast...
I would agree not Native, at least not Northwest Coast native. I'm less familiar with Hupa, Karuk, Yurok, but others here do have that familiarity.
Lot and lots of nice things!! One nice and hopeful note I might add is that in a great many of these cultures, Northwest Coast for one, there are...
#3 is good also, and I'd also go with K'San. It has a very "squared-off" style, and a number of the students and teachers there were...
Can't add much - the initials on the first one are vaguely familiar, but nothing specific comes to mind. On the second, I might note that the...
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