dish (food service)

A wooden food dish, elongated oval in shape with raised sides. Three sections are marked on the interior with the two outer sections being decorated with diagonal lines and the raised handle edges decorated with vertical lines. Outside, there are horizontal bands running along the upper edge. The two long outer edges are covered with hammered indentations.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
34.52
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 6.1024 x 23.5433 x 9.8031 in.; 155 x 598 x 249 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
On display: Horniman Museum > World Gallery > Americas > Pacific Northwest - generosity and potlatch
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