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Feast Dish

Date1899

Mediumoperculum shell, cedar

DimensionsOther: 32.5 × 37.7 cm (12 13/16 × 14 13/16 in.)

ClassificationsCeremonial Objects

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Paper Field ReferencesCMH VII-B-736

Object numberHRC 00736

Descriptionfeast dish, of cedar, a acedar plank has been notched in three placces and bent toward the notches to form right angled corners. the fourth corner is pegged together with wooden and iron pegs, but shows traces of being earlier sewn with cedar withes. walls are slightly concave on the outside. a cedar base is fitted on and attached with wooden pegs. top of base is concave on sides, flat in centre. each wall has flat rim, inlaid with opercula. rim of ends is convex; of sides, concave. below rim, parallel carved vertical columns encircle dish. on each wall is a bilaterally symmetric design, carved in low relief. end adjacent to pegged join has pair of ovoids and hand/flipper design, possibly sea lion. sides show pair of ovoids with modified salmon head motif, joined by series of u forms (back of animal?). other end has face like array of forms.

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