Dish

29-175-284

From: Canada | British Columbia | Queen Charlotte Islands

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 29-175-284
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Haida
Provenience Canada | British Columbia | Queen Charlotte Islands
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood | Pigment
Description

Oval food dish in form of seal. Hollow of bowl, curved upward at both ends. Body painted with conventional anatomic details. Head and hind flippers carved semi-realistically. Red paint: face, teeth, design below chin, flippers, rim of bowl and lips of small face between flippers. Black paint: irises, lip of seal.

Height 8.4 cm
Length 23.5 cm
Width 12 cm
Credit Line Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917
Other Number 6/9870 - Collector Number

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