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Collected by John Spottiswood Tait while in Queen Charlotte Islands, 1910 and Bella Coola, 1987.

Used by shaman (?)

Brown disk carved and incised with a killer whale design. The design has oval abalone inlaid eyes, surrounded by a tapering oval with diagonal triangular brows above, circular nostrils and a downturned open mouth. At the upper sides there are eye forms with a split u within a u form inbetween. At either lower side are ovoid abalone inlays with an eye form and a pointed u form at the tips.