#40 • Athabascan Beaded Trinket Boxes - DeWilde Family

Part of Spring 2025 Discovery Auction (timed auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $130.00

Status: Sold

Category: Ethnographic Objects

Two small Athabascan wooden trinket boxes with lids, each box covered in caribou hide and further accented with beads, gemstones, stitching, and what appears to be pieces of porcupine quills. Both are signed on the bottom by the same artist from the DeWilde family of Huslia, Alaska, c.1992. Largest measures approximately 2.5" in diameter x 2" tall.