Rectangular wood dish with wide flat flanges for lifting at either end. [MJD 05/05/2009]

Wooden food dish, in one piece, flat bottomed, the sides diverging upwards, the ends produced as flat wide flanges for lifting.

Gill net hoop weight with an alder(?) wood hoop, maple bark wrapped fastenings, and a maple bark wrapped stone at center. Also, organic (apocnym?) string remains attached to base. J. Futch, A. Maasen, October 29, 2004.

The bead is white.

The fat harbor seal was a favortie theme of of northern bowl carvers, probably because it was an important source of oil, and because its meat and blubber were important at feasts. Perched on its round belly on a reef just above the tide, head and hind flippers arched upward, the harbor seal is a familiar sight to coast travellers. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

A universal feature of northern halibut hooks is the sculptural decoration of the lower arm, the one that faces the ocean floor on which the halibut lie. The figures carved on this arm are intended to influence the fish to take the hook, and so exceed the decorative. They very often depict creatures combining the attributes of different beings. This one is half man and half halibut. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)