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From card: "Shaman's."
From card: "Made from piece of heavy sheet copper hammered, crudely formed. Probably from ship bottom."
FROM CARD: "FROM: PAGE 69, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 59. BENT BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; PAINTED BLACK AND RED; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA. WIDTH: 7 1/2. BELLA BELLA, BRITISH COLUMBIA. "DINNER DISH." COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. CATALOGED JANUARY 15, 1876."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. The dinner dish appears to be made out of alder wood, as was usual of most bowls and spoons. Alder wood didn't carry poison, it didn't have toxins like red cedar and yellow cedar.