Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens large wood bowl deeply incised Art Nouveau inspired

deeply incised Art Nouveau inspired decoration around its in neck and shoulders in shades of copper

extended arms of this man and woman as they reach out for one another

having seen pieces in a couple of exhibitions of Inuit prints (that blew me away) over the past few years

then hand-finished each kernel using dental tools

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens large wood bowl deeply incised Art Nouveau inspiredI had not seen a box like this one before I found it, but have learned that it is an antique snuff box representative of a whole genre of figurative birch snuff boxes made in the 18th and 19th century in Scandinavia and Germany, and also it seems in the U. S., as I found one in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts portraying the death of a general at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775! The hinged box, which I believe dates to the second