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Property of Various Owners, Lots 139-145
Lot 144

A Northwest Coast seal effigy bowl

19 June 2017, 11:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$5,000 inc. premium

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A Northwest Coast seal effigy bowl

The head and back flippers extending from either end of the deep bowl, relief-carved and painted details, abalone insets about the rim of the vessel, similar accents at the face and tail.
length 19 1/2in

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Provenance
Collected by James A. Richardson, a federal fisheries employee best known as the first recorded Anglo explorer of the Lake Shasta Caves in Northern California, whose claimed date of discovery, November 11, 1878, is still legible on the wall where he wrote it that day with carbide from his miner's lamp; thence by decent through the family

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