Boat shaped dish, oval with high ends and raised decoration inside. Mountain sheep horm steamed and molded. Dish to hold fish oil.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1904
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dishes (vessels for food)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Dish to hold fish oil. May be household dish.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 18 centimeters and height 9.1 centimeters
Comment:
Additional original number: U.C. Col.? 115. Context of use: Cf. 2-4634. References: Inverarity, "Art of the Nw. Coast Indians," pl. 205.
Loans:
S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957)