SUPERB NORTHWEST COAST CEREMONIAL FEAST TRAY Northwest coast 15 in H x 19

15 in H x 19 in W

United Kingdom

Purchased in the 1980s in Hawaii

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The Asmat people of southwest New Guinea create and use elaborate woven masks for ritual feasts that celebrate the passage of the recently deceased from the world of the living to the ancestral realm known as safan

SUPERB NORTHWEST COAST CEREMONIAL FEAST TRAY Northwest coast 15 in H x 19Haida or Tlingit Culture, Coastal Alaska and British Columbia Circa 1780 1820 Length: 38 inches (96. 5 cm) Alderwood, Turban snail shell opercula. Provenance: Paul and Mary Thiry Collection Seattle, Washington Art Loss Register certificate #S00257110 Masterfully carved by Tlingit artists, elongated shallow trays of this type are among the most elegant food serving vessels of the Northwest Coast. With their flat bottom and undercut rim, they are