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Object Type
Museum number: Am,NWC.100
Description: Ceremonial club (with figures), implement made of wood, teeth (mammal), shell, hair (human), gum (spruce).
Production ethnic group
Production date: 1780 (before)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: North America
Materials: wood; mammal tooth; haliotis shell; human hair; spruce gum
Dimensions: Height: 10 centimetres; Length: 55 centimetres
Bibliographic references: King 2000a / Nuu-chah-nulth Art at the British Museum (fig.2, p.261); Glenbow 1987b / The Spirit Sings: Artistic traditions of Canada's First Peoples: A Catalogue of the Exhibition (N 43, p.141); King 1981 / Artificial Curiosities of the Northwest Coast of America (col.pl.3; mon.pl.1 [detail]); Bancroft-Hunt & Forman 1979 / People of the Totem; The Indians of the Pacific Northwest (pp.123-124); Cobbe 1979 / Cook's Voyages and Peoples of the Pacific (no. 77, p. 95); Coe 1977 / Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art (320); Inverarity 1950 / Art of the Northwest Coast Indians (No 140); Dalton & Joyce 1910 / Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections (Fig. 243)
Location: On display (G26/dc6)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1976-1977 7 Oct-16 Jan, London, The Hayward Gallery, Sacred Circles: 2,000 Years of North American Indian Art 1977 16 Apr-19 Jun, Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Sacred Circles: 2,000 Years of North American Indian Art 1979-1980 15 Feb-29 Sept, London, Museum of Mankind; Captain Cook in the South Seas 1988 15 Jan-1 May, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples 1988 1 Jul-1 Nov, Museum of Civilization, Lorne Building, Ottawa, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples 1999 25 Jun-Present, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Mowachaht of Vancouver Island"
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753-1800
Acquisition notes: Collected during one of Cook's voyages.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am,NWC.100
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am17??D8.100 (old CDMS no.)

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