Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens large wood bowl The exterior shows a wonderfully

The exterior shows a wonderfully nuanced range of tones

yellow and pinkish birds -- one on each side of the vase -- at first seem more like abstract passages than figurative forms

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

including both antique and contemporary decor

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens large wood bowl The exterior shows a wonderfullyI 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