Plate

Image by Musée départmental de Solutré
A piece of mammoth tusk was hollowed to form the trough-shaped plate, which was used to serve fish and meat.

Nganasan.
Yenisei region, Turukhansk District, camp of Letovye, 1904.

Ivory (mammoth tusk).

Length 50.5 cm.

Coll. No. 729-49.

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