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Plate XVIII 
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 Ruby creek on Fraser river, B.C In 
collection of Mrs. (Rev.) C. Croucher, Yale, B.C.; natural size. After Figure c in 
negative and lantern slide by Harlan I. Smith, on Geological Survey, Canada, expedi- 
tion, July 31, 1915, Cat. No. 34586 in Museum. Side view is illustrated in Figure c 
negative, Cat. No. 34587. Referred to in Smith, Remarkable, 1917. 
Figure 2. Carved dish made of dark green soapstone. From 24 miles above Yale, B.C. 
Cat. No. IV B 1700, in Royal Ethnographical Museum, Berlin; | natural size. After 
Figure 185c , Smith, Gulf of Georgia, 1907, from drawing by W. von den Steinen 
Front and side views are illustrated in Plate XIX. 
