Sculpture : 2007.53.001

Collection:

Juneau—Douglas City Museum

Object ID:

2007.53.001

Accession#:

2007.53

Credit Line:

Donated by Katherine Shaw.

Object Name:

Sculpture

Title:

Carved frog grease dish

Year Range from:

1900

Year Range to:

1910

Description:

Black wooden grease dish with handles carved in the shape of two frogs heads with abalone eyes. The detail consist of the following colors: dark green (around frog's eyes), dark red (around frog's mouth and inside the deeper bowl portion), and four white rectangles (possibly bone) around the deeper bowl portion. Bottom has penciled in inscription reading:
"To
City Museum"

Notes:

Tlinget carved frog bowl. The bowl was taken in trade by Gertrude Messerschmidt of the San Francisco Bakery (Second Street) c1907. Grease dishes or bowls were used for holding or serving rich foods such as candlefish or seal oil in which food was dipped. However, this particular dish seems to have only been used as a decoration.

People:

Shaw, Katherine
Messerschmidt, Gertrude

Search Terms:

San Francisco Bakery
Business
Bakery
Tlingit
Wood

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Grease Dish

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