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Property of Various Owners, Lots 150-151
Lot 150

A Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) Janus-head figural spoon

19 June 2017, 11:00 PDT
San Francisco

US$4,000 - US$6,000

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A Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) Janus-head figural spoon

Delicately executed, the handle conceived as a pair of serene opposing faces with closed eyes, outstretched fingers beneath the chin of each, the upraised arms framing a central ovoid basin, the terminal head similarly concave, the back of the handle reduced to angular planes carved with banded grooves.
length 9in

Footnotes

Illustrated
Ewing, Douglas C., Pleasing The Spirits: A Catalogue of a Collection of American Indian Art, 1982, Ghylen Press, p.357, plate 438, identified at that time as Northern Californian in origin

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