Featured NWC (?) Wood ladle (?)

This is long at 33". Is it maybe unfinished? Hobbyist carver or indications of a First Nations artist?

My (total) guess about the fur is fox.

The head seems an eagle, and perhaps there's another animal in the other direction-- they look like seal flippers to me.

Anyway, I respectfully ask for the experts' help yet again!

@komokwa @all_fakes @cxgirl

 

I have no idea what that thing is...or could be.....
I can't even say if it's finished or unfinished......

 

Ok-- I hear 'ya. Thanks for checking it out.

 

Stirring stick for Potlatch seafood chowder?

 

Thanks. I did have that thought, but I've not been able to find anything else like it, so that makes it seem more like this is one random person's carving.

 

the fact that it's unsigned.....reasonably new, and doesn't present with the proper NWC formline.....leads me to speculate that it is not NA made.....but someone's idea of a ladle or paddle .....

 

Yeah that sounds right to me too.

 

best I can offer !

 

Well, at 33", I don't think it's a POT ladle/stirrer, unless for a TRIBE!!! But, OTOH, it looks nicely done!!! OOOOOOH, maybe a paddle!!!

 

For a Potlatch, you'd need a pretty commodious vessel...I've got several in the 2 to 3 gallon range. The issue with a food stirrer is the Fox-fur, which wouldn't survive long in a kitchen environment.

 

Fancy snow snake?

 

how do u even know about a snow snake...?
I'm impressed...

 

Is snow snake played in the NW? I thought it was much further east.

 

uhhh...wot's a snow snake? Or is this a leg-pulling event?

 

'stick' around here & learn stuff!

 

Gee...that clears everything up. Or does it?

 

Looks like a frozen lake, with Ice fisher-persons having to use tripods for the ginormous fishes. Then there's that runway for drones...I guess I'm still without clue, folks.

 

We had a number of Ojibwe friends some years ago.

 

1st nations winter game.......
slide pointy stick down slippery hard packed snow channel......
furthest wins.....