A fine and historically important Tlingit Bone trap-stake, Yakutat Tlingit; BC, Canada; Alaska, USA
Carved from bone, the stake with a seal atop a cubistically rendered head with coif or headgear indicated by a serrated ridge, the mouth carved simply with pointed chin; the stake bowed in a graceful arch. H. 11 5/8"
Comments: Property of an East Coast private collector
Provenance: Collected at Yakutat Bay by Ralph Stockman Tarr in 1903 on a US Geological Survey mission.
