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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