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Punch Bowl

1900-1915
Possibly by Joseph Heinrichs (American (active New York and Paris), active 1897–1937)
In the twentieth century, as the eastern United States became more industrialized and urban, objects and images that evoked the ruggedness of the American West became popular. The iconography of this punch bowl - the representation of American Indian heads and bear pelt, together with the stone arrowheads - came to symbolize the country's uniqueness and strength as it was taking its place as a world power.

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