dish
- Museum number
- Am1898,1020.3
- Description
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Large box-shaped dish of rectangular form, with curved sides and ends, curved raised rims to the ends, and convex rims to the sides, the rim broad and flat, undercarved on the inside. The ends are simply carved in low relief with faces - eyes, ears, mouth/beaks, the eyes seperated by a tail-like form indicated with parallel incised lines. The rim edge on the sides is indicated with single incised lines, and the corners with vertical parallel lines in knife work, the corners themselves with short incised horizontal lines. The rim is inlaid with opercula, all present except for one piece missing at the point of a serious split, and one other. The dish shows traces of grease, dried out in some areas, with mould and detritus on the inside. The wood is probably alder.
- Production date
- 1840-1890
- Dimensions
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Height: 15 centimetres
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Length: 42 centimetres
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Width: 35 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Additional details/description,JCK,5/1995.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Poor.
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1898,1020.3