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Food bowl carved to represent a frog
Food bowl carved to represent a frog
Object Number 14-27-10/85879
Display Title Food bowl carved to represent a frog
Descriptions
Inventory Description Dish, ovoid bowl, carved and painted zoomorphic form, extenuated legs
Classification
  • Dish
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Nishga
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 30 x 9.4 x 20.5 cm (11 13/16 x 3 11/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 14-27-10/85879; L52/2/297; 31; 31
Provenance
Collector Lt. George Thornton Emmons (?)
Donor Lt. George Thornton Emmons (1914)

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