Feast bowl
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Two exquisitely carved spirit effigies preside over this feast bowl. Rendered with a high degree of naturalism, they represent a male and a female with black hair and eyes, slender necks, and small squared shoulders. The male has a warrior’s roached haircut and the female wears her hair in a “clubbed” fashion: wrapped in silk ribbon and then adorned with a silver hair plate. An edged rim highlighted in black pigment connects the two beings.
Artwork Details
- Title: Feast bowl
- Artist: Unrecorded Woodlands artist
- Date: ca. 1780
- Geography: Canada, Northeastern Woodlands
- Culture: Woodlands
- Medium: Maple burl, pigment
- Dimensions: H. 7 3/4 × W. 16 1/2 in. (19.7 × 41.9 cm)
- Classification: Wood-Containers
- Credit Line: Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY (T0824)
- Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing