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Small fish dish

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Object Number: E4277

Collection: Ethnography

Figure of a fish in white alabaster, in form of a shallow dish, possibly used as a container for fish paste called ngapee, a condiment to go with food—one that many British writers claimed to loathe. The mouth, gills and eye are painted in gold.