Serving Dish
2003-43-78
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-78 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Nivkh | Orochi |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Birch Bark | Paint | Wood |
| Technique | Cut | Appliqued | Painted | Sewn |
| Description | Birch bark tray; white outer surface of birch bark forms outer surface of tray; rim of tray formed by binding several strips of wood with narrow wood splints; decorative band sewn to basic tray form; geometric and scroll patterns are incised and punctuated onto surface of this decorative band; open areas of the decorative elements have been colored with red, black and blue paint. Inscription in interior of tray: "Deep Tray". |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.78 - Other Number | 74-1-56 - Other Number | N124 - Other Number |
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