Description:

The McCord Museum collection includes some of the oldest and finest Haida feast dishes to be found anywhere in the world. This collection was assembled in the 1860s by George Mercer Dawson, a Director of the Geological Survey of Canada. The deeply carved yellow cedar bowls gleam with the patina of the seal and fish oil that they once contained. The iconography of these pieces is among the most complex of all Haida artistic work.