Carved Argillite Vessel; Frog-Shaped
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: Small bowl carved from black argillite in the form of a frog. Has original Peale # label. Front left foot broken/part missing.
label: Notes
content: Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition. This object has been attributed as possibly Haida, based on its being made of argillite.
label: Notes
content: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7186, United States Exploring Expedition Collection, Box 2, Folder 6, has a shipping list/received list via the USS Oregon in October 1842: "Ex Ex Box No. 18 R. R. Waldron [Richard Russell Waldron]. Box No. 18 From the Oregon Territory containing ... 1 Dish in shape of a Bull frogg. Black Stone ... ".
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 45 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Coast, United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2567-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dish
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 14 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 11.2 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 3.5 cm