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Object Number 17-17-10/87177
Display Title Porpoise feast dish of cedar
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Tlukw e lilh
Object Description Porpoise feast dish of cedar
Inventory Description Dish, carved fish design with fin handle
Classification
  • Dish
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Kwakwaka'wakw
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia / <County> / <City> / Gwa I
Additional Geographic Terms Kingcome Inlet; Queen Charlotte Sound
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 21.6 x 66.6 x 26.6 cm (8 1/2 x 26 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 87177
Provenance
Expedition Peabody Museum Expedition (1917)

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