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Box-shaped wooden food dish
Object Number 14-27-10/85888
Display Title Box-shaped wooden food dish
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carved wooden box, rectangular, zoomorphic design.
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Nishga
  • Gitksan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 17.5 x 27.8 x 27 cm (6 7/8 x 10 15/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 14-27-10/85888 & 124
Provenance
Collector Lt. George Thornton Emmons (?)
Donor Lt. George Thornton Emmons (1914)

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