Plate
About this object
History of use
Narrative
Argillite was purchased by John Davidson from Birks Co. in approximately 1964.
Cultural context
commercial art
Iconographic meaning
Crests represented particular kinship groups and may depict elements of myth.
Physical description
Plate is shape of rectangle with convex curved side. Upper surface slightly concave, under surface tapered to smaller flat base of same shape. Upper surface carved in design of eagle and whale. Remaining areas filled with crosshatching. Border where not covered by figures is carved with a pattern of continuous half-ellipses. Rim, 1.3 cm wide, is uncarved, inlaid with circular pieces of abalone at 1.3 cm in diameter at mid-point of each side. Incised on under-surface is 'Pat Dixon Skidegate B.C. 1971'.
Categories
Date Made
C. 1971
Date Acquired
23 Dec 1976
How Acquired
Donated
Measurements
Overall: 24.4 cm x 11.7 cm x 1.7 cm
Object Number
Nb1.426