box
- Museum number
- Am.6819.a-b
- Description
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Miniature bentwood box made of baleen, with wooden base, tied with string and inlaid with haliotis shell. Compressed formline design carved into the surface may represent a salmon. Lid made of wood inlaid formerly at six points with agate (?), though now only three stones remain in place.
- Dimensions
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Height: 4 centimetres (of lid)
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Height: 9 centimetres
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Width: 8.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The collection as a whole was obtained by Comrie while working along the Northwest Coast, during the 1860s, as Medical Officer on HMS Sparrowhawk.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1998 1 Mar-24 May, BM Room 35, BP Ethnography Showcase: The Return of the Museum of Mankind
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am.6819.a-b
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1870C1.6819a (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: 71 (Pre-accession Corie collection number.)
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Miscellaneous number: Am1870C0803.24
