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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 11614947, member: 55&quot;]And as 2manybooks mentioned, the treatment of the ears is quite NWC, where a technical term would be &quot;U-forms.&quot;</p><p>A common NWC&nbsp; motif is a bear holding a salmon, and the spoon is perhaps more likely to show a poorly-depicted salmon than a sturgeon. Top figure is possibly a lion; lion of course is not a traditional NWC crest figure, but does appear on NWC silverwork sometimes; native artists were familiar with lions from ship figureheads and other sources.</p><p>Also compare this Sitka spoon from the website linked; note the fish (salmon?), eyes, and ears:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]546122[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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