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Description

Oblong horn dish with perforation at one end. [CAK 19/04/2010]

Longer Description

Oblong horn dish with perforation at one end. The dish is made from a single piece of horn that has been steamed, moulded and carved into shape. The inside and outside of the dish is smooth. The long sides flare out slightly from the base. Of the shorter ends, one is the same width as the body of the dish with a gradual curve, whereas the other is narrower, bent, and perforated. The vessel is brown in colour and the grain of the horn is clearly visible. [CAK 19/04/2010]

Research Notes

The following information comes from Haida delegates who worked with the museum's collection in September 2009 as part of the project “Haida Material Culture in British Museums: Generating New Forms of Knowledge”:
This bowl was viewed alongside other horn and wood dishes on Wednesday Sept 9, 2009. This dish shares similar characteristics with 1891.49.64 - .66, and 1891.49.69. Lucille Bell observed that the holes in these dishes may function in the same way as the holes in the handles of spoons, along the dishes to be hung on a wall when not in use. Diane Brown wondered if the hole in the dish indicated where a rivet would have been, and that the dish was actually a spoon missing its handle. Gwaai Edenshaw offered that rivets were used after something had been broken, and that originally they would have been one piece. Delegates wondered if these scoop-shaped horn vessels were used for drinking out of. In terms of their function as either dishes or spoons, Nika Collison said she was seventy per cent certain it was a bowl. [CAK 19/04/2010]

Primary Documentation

Accession book entry (for 1891.49.62 - .71): From Rev. Ch. Harrison, 80 Halton Rd, Canonbury Sq. N. Collection of Haida objects collected by him.... - [1 of] 10 horn dishes. £45. [Purchase price includes 1891.49.1-110]

Accession book entry [Red numbers] - Containers other than pottery 104 A - L - 104.I.10. Dish for grease and berries of Rocky Mountain goat's sheep's horn, somewhat boat-shaped, flat bottomed, elyptical [sic] at rim, one end produced more than the other and thickened and perforated at the end. Haida, Queen Charlotte Id. Obtd. by Rev. C. Harrison. Purchased from him 1891.' Drawing opposite.

No additional information on catalogue cards. [JC 4 9 1996]

Written on object - [on inside of bowl] 104.I.10; [on outside of bowl] 104.I.10 DISH FOR GREASE AND BERRIES. HAIDA. C. HARRISON COLLN. PURCHASED 1891. [CAK 05/05/2009]

Related Documents File - The Haida Project Related Documents File contains video of research sessions and interviews with Haida delegates from September 2009 as part of the project ‘Haida Material Culture in British Museums: Generating New Forms of Knowledge'. It also includes post-visit communications that discuss object provenance. For extensive photographic, video, and textual records documenting the Haida research visit as a whole, including but not limited to preparations of objects for handling, travel logistics, British Museum participation, transcribed notes from research sessions and associated public events held at PRM, see the Haida Project Digital Archive, stored with the Accessions Registers. Original hand-written notes taken during research sessions have been accessioned into the Manuscripts collection, in addition to select other materials. [CAK 02/06/2010]