Dish Item Number: E 1906.87 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Description
A shallow circular dish intricately carved with rosette designs on upper surface and rosette designs with leaves on the lower surface.; Good
Context
The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.; The style and subject matter of this object conforms to those of the Second Period of argillite carving, 1830 -1865. This was the time when the Haida confidently depicted aspects of European culture created in a uniquely Haida medium and expressed with the characteristic detail of observation. The types of objects are ship pipes, European standing figures, western tableware, flutes and trade pipes. (The time periods of argillite carving are derived from Carol Sheehan' s Pipes That Won' t Smoke; Coal That Won' t Burn; Haida Sculpture in Argillite, 1981, Glenbow Museum: Calgary, and Peter Macnair and Alan Hoover' s The Magic Leaves, 1984, British Columbian Provincial Museum: Victoria.); Collected by: Balfour.H in ?- - 1870; ?- - 1871; ?- - 1872; ?- - 1873; ?- - 1874; ?- - 1875; ?- - 1876; ?- - 1877; ?- - 1878; ?- - 1879; ?- - 1880
Item History
- Made in Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, Canada
- Received from R.C. Bosanquet during 1906
Who
- Culture
- Haida
- Received from
- R.C. Bosanquet
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1906
Other
- Keyword
- Art; Tourist Objects