Carved Slate Plaque

Item number E305098-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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From card: "Inlaid with bone. Carved from fine black slate. Decoration two snakes in relief around border; edge flat inlaid with triangular pieces of bone. In concave of bowl running design of wheel and three leaves; circular area in bottom bordered with rope, middle area a sunburst set with triangles of bone. The work is like that on Wilkes and Gibbs pipes from Puget Sound and Vancouver I. Probably Russian influence. Specimen is old and good."