Bear Mask Box - 2025 Charity Box

Name: Bear Mask Box - 2025 Charity Box
Brand: Dempsey Bob
Price: 3000.0 CAD
Availability: InStock

$3,000.00

Bear Mask Box - 2025 Charity Box

Dempsey Bob

$3,000.00

Description

This piece is part of our 2025 Charity Bentwood Boxes auction running from November 22nd to December 6th.

Prices shown reflect the most recent bids and are updated in real time.

To place a bid, please call us at 604-732-4556 or email info@lattimergallery.com.

Bids increase in increments of $100.00 CAD

Please note: Once the live auction begins at 5:00 PM December 6, 2025, email bids can no longer be accepted.

We’re grateful for every bid and every participant.

Box - 4" x 3 1/2" x 3 1/2"

Mask - 3" x 1 1/2" x 1"

Red cedar, yellow cedar, acrylic paint

Shipping

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"In our culture the cedar box has always protected the things we value, the masks, the regalia, the songs and stories. This Bear Mask Box carries that history forward. The painted design is an abstract eagle with human forms, and the eagle is important to Indigenous people up and down the coast, a figure that connects many of our stories. The miniature mask is of the grizzly bear. Grizzly is part of my clan. I used blue formline because I have been studying the colours of the old Chilkat robes, and I wanted that movement and energy on the box. When I carve, I try to bring together what I see and what I know, letting the lines feel alive and carry the history I come from. The box holds our past and our future, and it continues the work our old people taught us to do."

-Dempsey Bob

Dempsey Bob

CULTURAL GROUP:
Tahltan/Tlingit

BORN:
1948

BIRTHPLACE:
Telegraph Creek, BC

Dempsey Bob is from the Wolf clan. He began carving in 1970, and studied with late Haida artist Freda Diesing when he was just starting out. Dempsey was encouraged by Freda to apply to the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art at 'Ksan in Hazelton, BC, and he studied there between 1972 and 1974. Dempsey is primarily a wood carver, but has also branched out to bronze casting and jewellery. He has been included in numerous shows, beginning with the early People of the Cedar travelling exhibition that was organized by the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, QC, in 1977. More recently, he was included in the successful Totems to Turquoise exhibition, which travelled throughout North America in 2005. Dempsey's work is highly sought after, and his pieces can be found in the collections of such public institutions as the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the National Museum of Ethnology in Suita, Japan, and the Hamburgisches Museum fur Volkerskkunde in Hamburg, Germany. Dempsey has also become involved in Pacific Rim artist exchanges, and travelled to New Zealand in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. In June 2013, Dempsey Bob was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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