I like the elbow shape and the great thickness where the handle joins the bowl for stability. Well designed with wood figure, too.
Here in the PacNW, carved wood surfaces are commonly textured with carving tool marks.
Personal taste, I suppose, but like Mesquite, I find that far more attractive than a surface which might have been factory-sanded.
For large works, the elbow aze and the D adze are the usual tools with a lifetime of practice to get it "right."
The giveaway is that native carvers texture in rows of chips.
I built a pair of PacNW style crooked knives that will texture easily, about a #5 sweep but the chips are no more than 1/4".
forginhill: next up, you need to carve a feast bowl for that lonely spoon. Lots of fun adze work.