Feast Ladle Item Number: 25.0/247 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
Simple, undecorated wooden ladles share everyday duty with plain dishes and bowls. This ladle is decorated only with a shallow groove paralleling the inner rim, a conventional ladle feature throughout much of the northern coast. The wood, probably alder, has been stained almost black by an infusion of the candlefish oil which it once contained. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
- Name
- Feast Ladle
- Identification Number
- 25.0/247
- Type of Item
- feast ladle
- Material
- wood
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved
- Overall
- length 13.5 in, width 7.3 in
Who
- Culture
- Northwest Coast
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection