X-RARE Pacific Northwest Coast Chinook Wooden Potlatch Feast Bowl-1800s/Oregon

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X-RARE Pacific Northwest Coast Chinook Wooden Potlatch Feast Bowl-1800s/Oregon:
$13500.00

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Antiques, Artifacts & Fine Collectibles

Native American Potlatch Feast Bowl

Pacific Northwest Coast: Chinook

Columbia River: Coast Salish–ChinookTribes

Find Location: Portland, Oregon

c. 1850—1900

Ceremonial Chinook Potlatch Feast Bowl:Pacific NW

Estimated Date: 1850—1900

Find Location: Northwest Coast, USA, Portland,Oregon, 19th Century

Material: Hand-carved Wood

Tribe: Chinook

Approximate Measurements:

· Length: 14.75”

· Width: 8.25”

· Height: 2.25”

·Weight: 1.29 lbs. (583 gr.)

DDETAILS

Minor dings, surfacecracks, abrasion marks, and grease/oil stains on this feast bowl are consistent with age and heavy useover centuries. Deep chisel cuts, apparently made by stone chisels and not steel, are especially evident on the inside ofthe bowl. A very early and RARE woodenartifact from the pre-white settler indigenous population of the island/region.

Estimated appraisedsale value for this EXTREMELY RARE Columbia River Ceremonial Potlatch Bowlwith provenance to the people living near Portland, Oregon, is $100,000--$125,000!

And at a 2009 Bonham’s sale inSan Francisco, CA, a similar Northwest Coast Bowl, with Lot 4198, sold for aneye-popping $206,000, including the 25% buyer’s premium!!

A potlatch was a ceremonial eventsponsored by each group north of the Columbia River. The term “potlatch” comes from the trade jargonused throughout the Pacific NW coastal region and means “to give.” A potlatch always involved the invitation of anotherhouse (or houses), whose members were received with great formality as guestsand witnesses of the event. Potlatcheswere used to mark a wide variety of transitions, including marriages, thebuilding of a house, chiefly funerals, and the bestowal of adult names, nobletitles, crests, and other ceremonial occasions. During the several days of thepotlatch, the hosts would provide the guests with two large meals per day.

After witnessing one of the abovelisted ceremonial proceedings, the potlatch guests were then given gifts andserved prodigious amounts of food, with the expectation that what was leftuneaten could be taken home by the guests. The social statuses of the guestswere recognized and reified through the potlatch, for gifts were distributed inrank order and the more splendid gifts were given to the guests of higheststatus. Whether hosting or acting as guests at a potlatch, all members of ahouse usually participated in the proceedings, a process that served tostrengthen their identification with the group.

The Chinooks and other NortheastCoast tribes held potlatches to show their wealth. Potlatches were specialcelebrations in which the hosts gave valuable gifts to the guests. Families preparedfor years for the potlatch.

The Northwest Coast Indians liked tosave their goods to show off to their tribe. The more goods a person had, thehigher social rank he had. The potlatch would last many days with lots offeasting. At the end of the Potlatch, the host of the party gave away hisfinest possessions. Sometimes the host gave away everything he owned. Thehigher the quality of goods that were given away, the higher the status of thehost.

During winter people of higherstatus rarely worked at day-to-day activities (leaving that to slaves), insteadusing the time to create two- and three-dimensional art and conduct potlatches,dances, and sacred ceremonies that brought people together to socialize, trade,and negotiate relationships within and between communities.

The Nuu-chah-nulth and some of theirneighbors made vessels with curving cutwaters at the bow, vertical sterns, andangular flat bottoms. Northwestern California dugouts had upturned roundedends, rounded hulls, carved seats, and foot braces for the steersman.Watercraft were made in different proportions for different purposes; forinstance, large reinforced vessels were used to move people and cargo, whileshorter, narrower craft were used for sea mammal hunting.

Chronology of Ownership

Thisauthentic, Potlatch Feast Bowl is from the estate of a private collector in Portland, Oregon. I recently acquired it froma private collector in Colorado.

This bowl will be accompanied by myCertificate of Authenticity at no additional charge.

REF:

TheSpirit World, bythe Editors of Time Life, 1992, pgs. 36-42.

SpiritFaces: Contemporary Masks of the Northwest Coast, by Gary Wyatt, 1998.

TheCoppers of the Northwest Coast Indians: Their Origin ..., Volume 79, Carol F. Jopling,pgs. 117—119.

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