Wooden dish - carving on each end represents the beaver totem – Objects

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Object Number 45-28-10/27703

Display Title Wooden dish - carving on each end represents the beaver totem

Descriptions

Inventory Description Dish, rectangular with flaring ends with carved facial designs

Classification

Dish

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Haida

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / United States / Alaska

Additional Geographic Terms Prince of Wales Island

Materials Wood

Dimensions Overall: 6.3 x 55.4 x 13.5 cm (2 1/2 x 21 13/16 x 5 5/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 45-28-10/27703; Hudson Bay Co Inc. . Curio Dept

Provenance

Collector Dr. Samuel Cabot (?)

Donor Dr. Samuel Cabot (1945)

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