Carved Wooden Dish Or Bowl Item Number: E9244-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
A wooden Head canoe-form bowl with rim inlaid with operculum shell. FROM CARD: "9244-54. NOS. 9244, 9250 ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIGS. 34, 32; P. 394. [Both identified as canoe dishes in the publication.] 9244, 9248, 9252, 9253, 9254: THESE 5 SPECIMENS WERE LENT TO RENWICK "BOXES AND BOWLS" EXHIBITION ON 11-7-73. RETURNED 8-24-76." FROM CARD: "CANOE-FORM BOWL. WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 176. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS. CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #N87, P.151." LOANED TO NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, OCT. 20, 1972. RETURNED: 5-29-73. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13 1987. LOAN RETURNED NOV 25 1988."
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Dr. Alexander H. Hoff in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA between 1867 and 1869
- Received from Army Medical Museum during 1870
What
- Name
- Carved Wooden Dish Or Bowl
- Identification Number
- E9244-0
- Type of Item
- dish
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit ?
- Field Collector
- Dr. Alexander H. Hoff
- Received from
- Army Medical Museum
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- between 1867 and 1869
- Acquisition Date
- during 1870
Other
- Accession Number
- 001767