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Plate XVII 
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 road-cut in shell-heap near North 
?, n Newbiggmg collection, Victoria; £ natural size. After Figure 
184b, Smith, Gulf of Georgia, 1907, from a drawing by Miss E. H. Woods. 
Figure 2. Carved dish made of soapstone. Probably from Fraser River delta, B.C. In 
®“ of Justice Martin, Victoria; * natural size. From casts, Cat. Nos. 
Ail-B-b21a and b, m Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. Also illustrated 
m ligure 184a, Smith, Gulf of Georgia, 1907, from cast, Cat. No. 16-8378 in American 
Museum of Natural History, New York. 
