Bowl Item Number: 1922.947 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Description
A boat shaped grease dish with roughly carved animal heads at either ends. The dish is very dark and impregnated with grease. Unusually it has been carved across the grain, therefore the grease has migrated along the grain of the wood and appears on the sides of the dish rather than more usually at the ends.; Good.
Context
'Loaned Out: Fundacion La Caixa, from 28/09/1999, for exhibition in Barcelona (05/10/99 - 09/01/2000) and Madrid (01/02/2000 - 02/04/2000), 'Spirits of Water. Art from Alaska and British Columbia'; returned 07/04/2000.Exhibited: On loan to 'Ships, Clock Stars: the Quest for Longitude', at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 11 July 2014- 4 January 2015; Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC: April 2015 September 2015; Adler Planetarium, Chicago: November 2015 March 2016; Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney: Nov 2016 March 2017.
Item History
- Made in Nootka Sound, British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Cook Collection, Ashton Lever, Leverian Museum, James Parkinson, John Rowe, Arthur Howe Holdsworth, Widdicombe House Collection and Louis C.G Clarke during 1922
Who
- Culture
- Makah ? or Nuu-chah-nulth ?
- Received from
- Cook Collection, Ashton Lever, Leverian Museum, James Parkinson, John Rowe, Arthur Howe Holdsworth, Widdicombe House Collection and Louis C.G Clarke
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- Nootka Sound, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1922
Other
- Keyword
- Food Preparation; Ceremonial Objects; containers