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Argillite Plate
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Argillite Plate
Argillite Plate

Argillite Plate

MediumPrints
Dimensions7.6 × 10.6 cm (3 × 4 3/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineCanadian Museum of History # 87461, 87478
Object numberPh 03998
DescriptionBlack and white photo of oval argillite plate. High relief carving presents a clam shell-like object with a carving of a bird face on the top surface. Eight faces look out from the same opened clamshell. The rest of the plate is carved in low relief: a killerwhale and a wasco are depicted. Attributed ot Charles Edenshaw, 1904.


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