Wooden dipper, with handle. Bent wood lashed together with spruce root to form dipper with integral handle extending from side. Fitted bottom held in place with wood peg (rivets); the outside of bottom is decorated with incised swastika.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Kodiak Island, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Kodiak district; Kodiak Island
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Spruce root and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
for preparing & serving food
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Photo: 15-21012. Remarks: See: Notes on Koniag Material Culture, R.F. Heizer; Anthro Papers, Univ. Alaska. vol. I, no. 1, pp. 11-24 (p.24, pl. 3E).