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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 325493, member: 55&quot;]Yes.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to how to find out more:&nbsp; I&#039;ve tried everything I know of, and found only what I posted before, which provided only tribal affiliation.</p><p>There are a great many carvers of NW Coast native items, and many are not well-documented online, or anywhere else.&nbsp; They sell souvenir-quality native art to local shops in Vancouver BC or Anchorage Alaska without gaining any fame or online recognition.&nbsp; Often carving is a sideline for a fisherman, carpenter, or dishwasher, and is not a full-time occupation.</p><p>For a &quot;known&quot; family, you would find quite a few online references; as one moves into lesser-known, there will be fewer and fewer.</p><p>You could check Ancestry.com, as one other possibility.&nbsp; Ike Charlie has a facebook page; you could contact him. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/IkeCharlie" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.facebook.com/IkeCharlie" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/IkeCharlie</a></p><p>Museum gift shops are notoriously over-priced, and I wouldn&#039;t assume a carving of this sort would have increased in value, or is more than what it appears to be, a pretty basic gift-shop native carving.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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