Object Number | NA7634 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Shell | Pigment |
Description | Shallow tray carved from one piece of wood. Rectangular shape with sides that slope toward a smaller, rectangular base. The sides are carved with the short ends higher than the long sides. Both short ends have a hawk's face carved on the interior with the beak curving downward and back into the mouth. The surfaces around the curved faces are heavily darkened. A formline, animal and face design is painted on the interior in red and black pigments. The rim is lined with opercula shells. |
Length | 71.5 cm |
Width | 25 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917 |
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