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Bowl1891.49.99

Rectangular wooden feast dish with carved decoration on the outside and inlaid along rim with otters' teeth or operculum shell. [MJD 24/08/2009]

Culture
Haida
Material
cedar wood plant, red cedar wood, yellow cedar wood, operculum shell and pigment
Made in
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Shell1924.33.16

10 opercula of shells. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/8/2005]

Culture
Haida
Material
operculum shell
Made in
British Columbia Queen Charlotte Islands Cumshewa Inlet, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Box1952.5.39 .1 - .2

Bentwood box [.1] painted with bird designs and lid [.2] inlaid with shell. [CAK 08/02/2010]

Culture
Haida Haisla ?
Material
cedar wood plant, pigment, operculum shell, animal leather skin, spruce root plant and iron metal
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii, Canada ?
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Bowl1954.9.94

Wooden bowl carved in the form of a seal with haliotis shell inlaid in the eyes and shell or tooth decorations (mostly missing) around the rim. [CAK 17/08/2009]

Culture
Haida
Material
wood, haliotis shell, operculum shell ?, ivory and tooth ?
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii NW Coast, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Model Totem PoleA1113

Model pole standing on a proportionally large carved animal figure with four inlaid shells, hollowed out underneath. From top to bottom, the pole has a human with bear ears, a shark(?) and a beaver on the front. Minimal use of red and black paint on pole only. Signed on the base. Pole is secured to the base with a screw.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood, metal, operculum shell and paint
Made in
Hartley Bay, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlA2654

Food bowl with convex sides, the two longer sides with a top edge that scoops down at the centre and the two shorter sides with top edges that arch upwards. Each side and the base is made from a different piece of wood, and the top edges are painted red and inset with off-white opercula shells. The sides of the dish are painted with designs in black and red.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
cedar wood, yellow cedar wood, paint, operculum shell and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Seal BowlA2449

Deep red-brown wood bowl in the shape of a seal. Shaped as a smooth, rounded seal's head at one end with inlaid oval abalone shell eyes surrounded by a carved tapering oval, a nose that has inward bored circular nostrils with a vertical ridge in between, and an open mouth showing a tongue. The other end is shaped as a tail enclosed by u-shaped piece representing flippers consisting of a central shell inset ovoid and three horizontal bands with eight, nine or ten small circular insets. Flipper design carved at each side behind the head consisting of a central shell inset ovoid, a split u, and four curvi-linear lines with four or five small circular insets along the upper three. The tail is also outlined by small circular insets. In between the side flippers and the back flippers, there is a central shell inset ovoid. Flat rim is inlaid with nine opercula. Back of seal is concave, forming a dish. Carved areas are inlaid with opercula, abalone, and beads.

Culture
Tlingit
Material
abalone shell, glass, operculum shell and wood
Made in
Sitka, Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlA2448

Wood bowl in the shape of a seabird, probably a loon, with the neck extended outward and forward and the back hollowed to form a dish. The bird has circular abalone shell inlaid eyes surrounded by a plain tapering oval and a beak covered with red ochre. The body of the bird is painted black with eight oval opercula inset around the rim. On the upper surface of the tail, there is a face design that has small white circular inset bead eyes surrounded by an oval and a tapering oval, a nose, and an open mouth coated with red ochre showing four plain teeth.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
glass, abalone shell, paint, ochre pigment, operculum shell and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BowlA17146

Brown wood dish in the shape of a frog shape. Has circular abalone shell inlaid eyes surrounded by a plain carved tapering oval, nostrils, and a thin open mouth. Crouching on its back legs with the fore legs bent forward. Rim of dish decorated with seven mollusk opercula.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
abalone shell, wood and operculum shell
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bentwood BowlA5322

Low bentwood bowl; the last corner and bottom are pegged. The undulating rim is inlaid with operculum shells. Rim is convex and concave at ends and sides. Distributive animal design painted on four sides in black and red.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
operculum shell, cedar wood, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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