GUEST: A woman was moving to Alaska and she did not have room in her trailer for it, so I went and purchased it from her. I just moved up here from L.A., I wanted a little bit of Pacific Northwest decor, and I just thought this one was really interesting, but not very loud. It's nice and subtle in the colors, so I got it.
APPRAISER: What do you like best about it?
GUEST: If this is a beak, I like this part about it, but it's just a great piece for a corner. It takes up a lot of room. It's nice.
APPRAISER: It is a beak.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Yeah, it looks like a big raven.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: That's what... that's what I think it is, and I think it's a really elegant, beautiful piece. The question with all of these is are they Native carved by indigenous people, are they made by skilled Boy Scouts, or a guy with a chainsaw?
GUEST: (laughing) Right.
APPRAISER: At the flea market. And this one, I think it's a Native carver, and so do the other people at the table.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: We all, when we saw it, we think it's made by one of the carvers that's in the southern end of those Northwest Coast tribes. Maybe a Nuu-chah-nulth carver. I think this was probably carved to sell. It's based on traditional carvings in this area. They carve like this clear up through British Columbia.
GUEST: Oh, okay.
APPRAISER: And... but the styles vary as you go south from north, and I think this is on the southern end of all this. It is cedar, or Douglas fir.
GUEST: Oh, okay, good.
APPRAISER: And so it's the right kind of wood on top of that.
GUEST: We had no idea.
APPRAISER: Yeah, and it's old. It's probably at least 50 years old.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: It could even be a little older.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: If you went into a gallery in-in Portland or Seattle, and this was for sale, I would think it would be between $3,500 and $4,000 to buy it.
GUEST: (laughing) You're kidding.
APPRAISER: No, I'm not. So, you know, I think it's a beautiful thing, and, you know.
GUEST: Oh, wow
APPRAISER: Well done. I like the colors and like the way it's carved. And it shows hand tool work on a lot of the carving, like these big eyes. That looks like it was all done with hand tools and not with any kind of mechanical tool.
GUEST: That's great.
APPRAISER: So, yeah, I think you did pretty good overall, you know?
GUEST: I did fabulous. I only paid $150 for it, so...
APPRAISER: And you enjoy it.
GUEST: I love it.
APPRAISER: I mean, you like it.
GUEST: I really do. I wouldn't have bought it if I didn't enjoy it.
