Dish

Trencher

NA5720

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA5720
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood
Description

Shallow dish or trencher carved from one piece of wood. Rectangular shape with sides that slope toward a smaller, rectangular base. The sides are carved with the short ends slightly higher than the long sides. The short ends are also somewhat damaged along their edges. Undecorated but with dark discoloration on the interior. A thin groove is carved on the interior roughly halfway between the rim and the base. Similar to NA5721.

Length 53.5 cm
Width 21 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917
Other Number TY1 - Field No SF | L5 - Other Number

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