Beaver Bowl, c. 1790
Museum Description: beaver bowl.
Physical Description: wood, metal; 6.2" x 19.5" x 4.2" (15.5cm x 51cm x 11cm).
NDT Note: wooden, carved bowl in the form of a beaver, brass tacks used for eyes; "used as a tureen" according to Judge Turner (in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1797, p. 253); cross-hatched tail, worn interior, hole in front area running from one side of mouth to the other, behind carved teeth, indicating the opening of the mouth; photo of Peabody Museum (Harvard) beaver bowl is in University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives-Administrative Records Box 34, folder 6; according to the record, the color was registered as 95476; condition is very good, smells a little like wood.
Penn Museum's online collections include the following details: Culture: Kaskaskia; Provenience: Illinois; Credit Line: Gift of American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1987.
tawaanilaakana