Brooch

Item number 94 in the catalogue "Bill Reid: a Retrospective Exhibition" (1974; Vancouver Art Gallery).

Round silver brooch, or pendant, depicting Tchumos? (salt-water beaver). Animal faces outwards, large eyes to either side, rounded nose with curled nostrils over a wide mouth showing top and bottom teeth with large incisors at centre. Cross hatched tail is placed at bottom centre between feet and legs. The back has a brooch pin as well as a loop, for hanging it as a pendant on a chain. HAIDA ART / Reid inscription on back.