photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Am,B44.7
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); side view of a carved wooden Kwakiutl bird on a stool, the bird is made from red cedar, with an anthropomorphic face on the bird's stomach.
Gelatin silver print.
- Production date
- 20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.70 centimetres (image)
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Width: 6.20 centimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Related information: this image was found with an envelope which reads:
" acc 1939
Photos of Totemic carvings from the north of Vancouver Island, B.C., collected in 1900 by Vice Admiral Wilfred Henderson. H. 42"
Bought from a SIWASH Indian for £8
offered by Mrs W Henderson of Rycroft, Ropley Hants, for £10."
The envelope can be found in the PicDoc for this image.
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Related object: the object in this image is housed in the British Museum, Am1939,09.1. Purchased from Mrs M Henderson and collected by her husband Admiral Wilfred Henderson.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the object it depicts.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,B44.7
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 601