Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Grease dish

Canada

 

Collected by E. Bouverie Pusey

Transferred to the Museum from the Ashmolean Museum in 1885

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Animal dish, Canada

In the Northwest coast region of America, dishes were often carved into the shapes of animals, especially seals. They were used at feasts to hold seal or fish grease into which food was dipped. This example is thought to represent a turtle. It was made some time before 1864.

View database record 1886.1.858 .1