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 Ladles and
 Horn Spoons
Food Dishes
and Bowls
 Bentwood Trays
and Serving
Dishes
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Bentwood Trays and Serving Dishes (cont.)
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The isolated decorative elements on this bentwood food dish do not form a coherent design. Such fractured designs seem to have appeared more frequently in the late nineteenth century, perhaps as a result of the disappearance of the traditions that guided the art forms. As well, pieces with such designs were sold mostly to artistically naive travellers.
Collected in 1914 by Thomas Deasey, the Indian agent at Masset.
CMC VII-B-1158 (S94-6748) |
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An exquisite example of a deep bentwood food dish of yellow cedar. The complex Whale designs are inlaid with two kinds of shell, opercula and abalone.
Acquired about 1900 for the Lord Bossom collection.
CMC VII-X-1093 (S94-6746) |
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A bentwood food dish made about 1850, decorated with brass corner plates. The design depicts a bird, possibly the Thunderbird, with a profile human figure on its back between the wing and tail feathers. The theme of carrying ancestors or mythic heros to the sky or undersea world is a recurrent one.
Collected on Haida Gwaii in 1898 by Charles F. Newcombe.
CMC VII-B-142 (S94-6799) |
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A deep bentwood food dish depicting the wings and tail of a bird. An unusual quartered device appears beside the wing joint on the long side. The rim is carved to overhang the interior and is decorated with opercula shells.
Collected at Masset before 1901 by Charles F. Newcombe.
CMC VII-B-334 (S94-6753) |
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A deep bentwood food dish with a bird design. The slightly bulbous sides are incised and painted with a particularly fine inverted human head over the forehead of the bird.
Collected at Skidegate in 1899 by Charles F. Newcombe.
CMC VII-B-341 (S92-4201) |
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This fine example of a bentwood food dish portrays a Beaver crest in which a human figure is manifested by hands on the sides and a face between the ears of the Beaver.
Collected at Skidegate in 1886 by Reverend Thomas Crosby.
CMC VII-B-97 (S94-6739) |
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