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Wooden food dish
Object Number 88-51-10/50119
Display Title Wooden food dish
Descriptions
Object Description Wooden food dish
Inventory Description Bowl, carved wood, oval, flat base, flaring sides, painted interior hunting scen
Classification
  • Bowl
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Chaleitmiut
  • Canineqmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Kuskokwim region; Nunivak Island, opposite
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 5.5 x 26.2 x 17.7 cm (2 3/16 x 10 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50119 & [37869] & 3328 & Chalit
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson (1876)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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