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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 11644011, member: 8267&quot;]Just some speculating thoughts - if some non-native decided to make a sort-of-NWC rattle, it seems they would try to make the style more traditional. These look like well-executed, modernized, functional rattles, perhaps made by a more southern artist - (Nuu-chah-nulth, Makah, Salish). The maker may have chosen not to sign them because they were intended for use, rather than as objects for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>This looks like it might be the remains of writing on the bottom of the bird. Or it may be a trick of the grain and lighting.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]546628[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As for hollowing out the whale, there seems to be a line, partly cut with a knife, partly split, running from under the tail to his mouth.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]546629[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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