1884.6.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Rectangular wooden bowl with carved decoration on the outside and, otters' teeth or operculum shell, inlaid in the rim.

Long description

Rectangular wooden bowl with carved decoration on the outside and otters' teeth or operculum shell inlaid in the rim. An abstract animal design is carved the short end sides and painted in black and red. Vertical lines are incised into either end of the long sides. The bowl is carved from a solid piece of alder wood. [MJD 24/08/2009]

Geographical reference

Canada

Northern America > North America > Canada

British Columbia Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) Vancouver Island NW Coast

Cultural groups

Haida

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1874

Date collected

By 1874

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Alder Wood Plant, Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Pigment, Material Operculum Shell, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Inlaid, Process Incised

Dimensions

Length: max 265 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.6.2 PR Cat other PR nos: 2084

Research and responses

The following information comes from Haida delegates who worked with the museum’s collection in September 2009 as part of the project “Haida Material Culture in British Museums: Generating New Forms of Knowledge”:

This bowl was viewed alongside other dishes on Wednesday, Sept 9, 2009. The wood was thought to be alder wood. Ruth Gladstone-Davies opined that the piece looks to be a 'rushed job'. [CAK 04/03/2010]

This object was viewed and tentatively identified as Haida by tribal members Vincent Collison, Lucille Bell, and Kwiiawah Jones on 7 September 2007 in preparation for a planned Haida community visit to PRM in 2009 [L Peers, 24/01/2008]

Search terms: Food and Drink, Figure, Vessel, Bowl, Food Accessory