Indigenous Skills: Carving a Feast Bowl

Kaska-Tlingit artist Dean Heron goes through a carving workshop on how to create a feast bowl. Bowls were carved from wood and sometimes goat or sheep horn. Some bowls were simple for everyday use and others were ornately carved with crest figures and brought out for ceremonial feasts.

The canoe bowls were miniature versions of larger ocean and river going ones - although sometimes exaggerated in shape. Expanding on your knowledge from previous workshops, the Feast Bowl workshop starts looking at Northwest Coast art from a sculpture point of view. The workshop utilizes more symmetry and gaining additional experience with hand tools like speciality gauges and finishing products.

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