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Object Number 88-51-10/50489
Display Title Wooden food dish
Descriptions
Inventory Description Dish, rectangular carved and painted red and brown abstract facial motifs
Classification
  • Dish
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bella Bella
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 12 x 28.6 x 22.5 cm (4 3/4 x 11 1/4 x 8 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 88-51-10/50489; 20559 / Bella Bella Br Col / 50489 / JGSwan ; Kwakuitl / Bella B
Provenance
Collector James G. Swan (1882)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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