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Large food dish or box
Large food dish or box
Object Number 88-51-10/50472
Display Title Large food dish or box
Descriptions
Object Description Large food dish or box; bentwood cedar box painted on four sides with bird and animal motifs, using natural wood color to decorative advantage as background to black and red brush work. Base and rim painted red.
Inventory Description Carved wooden dish
Classification
  • Dish
  • Raw Material
Department Ethnographic
Date ca. 1875
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / <County> / Fort Wrangell
North America / United States / Alaska / Sitkin Island
Materials Cedar, Pigment, Iron alloy
Dimensions Overall: 22 x 39 x 57.5 cm (8 11/16 x 15 3/8 x 22 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 88-51-10/50472 (20860)/Stikine Indians/Ft. Wrangel Alaska/J. G. Swan
Credit Line Exchange from the Smithsonian Institution, 1888
Provenance
Collector James G. Swan (1875)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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