Carved of a single piece of wood with operculum dotting the rim of bowl; sides decorated with red and black pigmented bear faces; corners of bowl with vertically carved parallel lines, length 15.75 in. x width 11 in.
last quarter 19th century
For similar examples see Boxes and Bowls: Decorated Containers by Nineteenth-Century Haida, Tlingit, Bella Bella, and Tsimshian Indian Artists (1974: 28-29).