House dish

{{Short description|Wooden dish used in First Nations ceremonies}}

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A house dish or feast dish (Kwakʼwala: {{lang-xx|kwk|Lukwalil}}) is a very large wooden dish, often ornately carved and painted in various human or animal figures, used in First Nations ceremonies in British Columbia.{{cite web |last1=Werner-Jatzke |first1=Chelsea |title=Object of the Week: Lukwalil (feast dish) |url=https://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2017/06/feast-dish/ |website=SAM Stories |access-date=18 November 2024 |date=1 July 2017}}{{cite book |last1=Volmar |first1=Michael |editor1-last=Bailey |editor1-first=Janet |title=100 objects, 100 stories, 100 years at Fruitlands Museum |date=2014 |location=Harvard, Massachusetts |publisher=Fruitlands Museum |isbn=978-0-9859668-1-2 |page=99 |url=https://archive.org/details/100objects100sto0000unse/page/98/mode/2up |chapter=Native American Collection}}

House dishes may be reserved only for special foodstuffs and not used for more common fare.