Wooden dish. Made of yew wood. Wood type identified by Charles Brown, June 1964.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Northwest Coastal People
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dishes (vessels for food)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For grease.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
rim— length 32 centimeters and rim— width 24 centimeters
Comment:
Publishe: "Art of the Northwest Coast Indians" Fig. 205; R.B. Inverarity, U.C. Press, 1950; J. Harrison (ed.) "The Spirit Sings", Vol. 2, fig. N86, Calgary: Glenbow Museum. Exhibited: Vancouver Art Gallery, 15 June-24 September, 1967.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957), S1961-1962 #72: San Jose State University (May 2, 1962–May 15, 1962), S1963-1964 #9: UC San Francisco Medical Center (September 3, 1963–October 11, 1963), S1966-1967 #77: Physical Education Department (UC Berkeley) (March 9, 1967–March 9, 1967), S1972-1973 #34: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Nelson H.H. Graburn (November 14, 1972–November 14, 1972), and S1974-1975 #41: Palo Alto Cultural Center (January 6, 1975–March 19, 1975)