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Small butter plates or saucers from "Indian camp" on Smith's Cove, ca. 1900

These small saucers were repurposed as paint plates and are thought to have been used in an Indigenous camp located on Smith's Cove in the early 1900s.
ID Number: 1957.1221.3
Date: Circa 1900
Physical Description: 1 Plate, Butter; china; .5 in.H x 2.5 in.Diam
Credit: MOHAI, 1957.1221.3
Subjects: Washington Territory, Indigenous Peoples

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