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Photo of a bowl handpainted with red flowers and blue and green leaves, glued together. Accompanied by the Chinuk Wawa words "hayash uskan" and its translation.

"Hayash uskan” is the Chinuk Wawa word for “bowl.” It is pronounced “high-YASH OOSH-kin.” This hand painted cottageware slop bowl was found by archaeologists in a trash pit located inside the fort, just to the right of the gate where visitors enter the fort today. Slop bowls were a traditional part of a tea or coffee service, and were used to dispose of leftover tea leaves or coffee grounds. In the Village, the community to the west of the fort where most employees and families lived, slop bowls had a different function. Inside these slop bowls, archaeologists have noticed utensil marks, possibly a sign that the fort’s working class used them not as part of a tea service, but as regular bowls for serving stews and soups.