#45 • Tlingit Potlatch Bowl - Tommy Joseph

Part of September 2024 Premier Auction (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $1,600.00

Status: Sold

Category: Ethnographic Objects

A large and important contemporary carved yellow cedar zoomorphic polychrome Tlingit potlatch bowl in the form of a frog, hand painted with inlaid abalone accents. Potlatch bowls are wooden bowls used to serve food during ceremonial feasts held by various native people of the Northwest coast. Signed on the underside by Sitka, Alaska woodcarver Tommy Joseph (Naal xak’w, b.1964), Eagle Wolf of the Kaagwaantaan Clan; the artist's works are held within several Alaska museums as well as the Carnegie Museum and others across the United States. The bowl measures approximately 24.5" x 12" x 7" tall.