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FROM CARD: "CARVED ANIMAL DISH, IN FORM OF CHIEF'S RATTLE. L.P.X. [probably L.P.X. stands for Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a.k.a. the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904]. 4/18/67: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL. 12/13/67:RETURNED BY VANCOUVER. VERY SIMILAR TO CAT. NO. 89,134 OR 5 ANIMAL-FORM BOWL; WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; TRACES OF RED PAINT. "CROW". 178961 LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13 1987. LOAN RETURNED NOV 25 1988. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS. CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #N88, P.151." FROM CARD: "178961 A. FROM: PAGE 50, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 26. ANIMAL-FORM BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; TRACES OF RED PAINT LENGTH: 10. (HAIDA, SKIDEGATE, BRITISH COLUMBIA. "CROW." (BY COMPARISON WITH 89134, NOT IN EXHIBITION) RECEIVED IN 1904. 178,961." No collector or donor is identified for this piece either in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book or the catalogue card. Ledger book indicates it was catalogued April 9, 1904.Jay Stewart and Peter Macnair 7-20-2005 identify this as oil dish; raven.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=658 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Bag This feast bowl imitates the shape of a Haida chief's rattle and the same supernatural beings are shown. Raven's body lends the bowl its overall form, and the cannibal spirit, Ulala, reclines on top. Ulala's arms extend around the bowl toward Hawk, who peers from Raven's tail feathers. Chiefly hosts served rich foods in carved bowls like this to their guests at winter ceremonies.