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Wooden food dish
Object Number 95-20-10/48406
Display Title Wooden food dish
Descriptions
Object Description Wooden food dish; delicately carved and painted, possibly with native pigments. Low relief carving restricted to short ends. Long sides decorated with incised linear motifs at either end, leaving centers plain. Rim painted dull brick-red with opercula inlays. Carved and painted at ends in red, black and blue. This small "square bowl" of alder wood provides a good example of decorative detail. symmetrical faces characteristic of and designs of square bark. Still visible colors are probably native pigments suspended in egg tempera paint.
Inventory Description Square wood box, carved zoomorphic figures, painted, teeth rim inlay
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1895
Culture
  • Tlingit?
  • Haida?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Materials Alder, Opercula, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 17.78 x 19.05 x 11.43 cm (7 x 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 95-20-10/48406 & L 52/2/111
Provenance
Donor American Antiquarian Society (1895)

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