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Plate XV 
British Columbia Coast 
Dishes Made of Stone 
A type of dish made of stone, found solely in British Columbia from 
near Nanaimo on the coast to Kamloops, but chiefly in the Saanich- Yale 
area; illustrated in Plates XV-XX and Figure 9, Plate XXXVI. 
Figure 1. Carved dish made of soapstone. From Cowichan, southeastern Vancouver 
island, B.C. Cat. No. 96-1-25-1 in British Museum; ^ natural size. After Figure 
183b, Smith, Gulf of Georgia, 1907. 
Figure 2. Carved dish made of sandstone. From shell-heap, Departure bay, near Nanai- 
mo, southeastern Vancouver island, B.C. Cat. No. 620 in Provincial Museum, Vic- 
toria, B.C natural size. After Figure 185b, Smith, Gulf of Georgia, 1907. Cast, 
Cat. No. XII-B-630 in Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 
