Vessel (Grease Dish) - Qantaq, Alutaq
Alaska State Museum > Alaska State Museum Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Ethnographic Collection
2014-9-2
Wood/Plant material
Height: 1.75"
Width: 4"
Length: 8.5"
Unknown
Gift of Susan Marie Hawley Corkery, Richard Bronson Hawley, and Sarah Atwell Williams. Donated in honor of the collector, Richard Bronson Hawley, an Alaskan bush pilot in the 1930s, and later a pilot for Pan American Airlines in Alaska and Hawaii.
Wooden bowl, carved in the form of a seal or seal-like creature. Wood is heavily saturated with fish or seal oil.