AN IMPORTANT HAIDA SILVER BRACELET

Details
AN IMPORTANT HAIDA SILVER BRACELET
BY CHARLES EDENSHAW, CIRCA 1880-1910
Of curved band form, engraved with frontal beaver design
2¼in. (5.7cm.) diameter
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, May 25, 1993, lot 214

Lot Essay

Brown (1996) writes: "Beaver design with frontal head, prominent incisors, large front leg joint with partial elaborated inner ovoids. Stacked U forms with double-lined cross-hatching with the border surface into which the clasp natures are intergrated with the border surface into which the clasp natures are cut. Double clasp. Single-hatching in nearly all ground areas."