Made of stone, oval (boat-shaped). Rim thicker than body; cracked.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Orick (village), Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Orick
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dishes (vessels for food)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
For catching rendered eel grease.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 13.6 centimeters, length 65.5 centimeters, and width 32 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-2774. "9390 - 91 made for informant's uncle living at Gold Bluff, from a steatite deposit at a point on the coast (Kate Point ?) between Orick and Gold Bluff.