Tray

Item number 3042/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Rectangular wooden tray with short side walls, attached to its base by screws. Walls are straight on the outside and sloped on the interior toward the tray base. The interior base of the tray is decorated with a central incised image of a whale inside a circle, with minimal decoration in blue, black and red. To each side of the circle are similar smaller whales, four in total. The interior side walls of the tray have stylized images of painted whale eyes and fins. Rounded handles are attached to each end wall with screws. On the bottom of the tray is written in red ink, “Carved by Charles Gladstone Skidegate Mission BC 1949”