Plate Or Saucer Carved From Slate
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 plate carved from black argillite. Three concentric circles are incised on bottom, inner surface. A rim (1.2 cm. wide) is incised with stylized leaf patterns. Underside of plate is elaborately carved with flower and leaf design. Crosshatch is used as background filler.
label: Notes
content: Incised and carved relief decoration, front and back, including floral and leaf motifs, compass-drawn motifs, cross-hatching. Has original Peale # label.
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: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort George, Milbank Sound, British Columbia, Canada, 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: E2568-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dish
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 14 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 3 cm