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Length: 26.000 cm
AOA NWC 25
Room 26: North America
Containers
Grease dish
This dish held oolachen, a rich buttery grease which came from the candlefish. Oolachen was eaten with smoked salmon at Haida feasts. The dish is in the shape of a person lying down with their legs curled up behind them. They have a hawk's beak for a nose, and their arms are like wings or flippers.
The bowl was collected in 1787 but was probably old by then. Amazingly it still smells of the grease that it once held.