?Bowl

Item number 1891.49.69 from the Pitt Rivers Museum.

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Description

Horn dish with short, squared handle. [CAK 19/04/2010]

Longer Description

Horn dish with short, squared handle. This plain scoop-shaped vessel is made from a single piece of horn that has been steamed, moulded and carved into shape. It is wide and shallow, with one end coming to a point, and the other end extending upward to form a short handle that is squared at the top. There is a small perforation in the handle. [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] [JC 4 9 1996]

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

Written on object - [on outside of bowl, very faintly] 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]

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 objects was viewed alongside other horn and wood dishes on Wednesday Sept 9, 2009. This vessel shared characteristics with 1891.49.63-.66. 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. Candace Weir believed this piece was utilitarian, rather than scoop used at a feast, because it was not decorated. [CAK 19/04/2010]

Although listed as a dish, this object is likely the ladle of a spoon given its overall shape, lack of flat bottom, and perforation at the taller end -- the perforation may indicate where the handle would have been attached. [CAK 05/05/2009]