Feast dish
Feast dish

Currently not on view

Feast dish,

before 1882

attributed Haida
PU 5225

Information

Title
Feast dish
Dates

before 1882

Medium
Cedar
Dimensions
h. 9.5 cm., l. 43.5 cm., w. 22.5 cm. (3 3/4 x 17 1/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Lent by the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Object Number
PU 5225
Place Collected

North America

Culture
Native American, Haida
Type
bowls (vessels), potlatches, dishes
Materials
wood
Techniques
carving
Subject
oil, grease, zoomorphic, eagles, feasts, ravens

Collected by Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, in or after 1877; Given to E. M. Museum (Princeton Museum of Natural History), 1882-1885

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