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Object Type
Museum number: Am,NWC.105
Description: Comb made of wood.
Production ethnic group
Production date: 1780 (before)
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: Archibald Menzies (?); Field Collection by: Captain James Cook (?)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: North America
Materials
Curator's comments: Illustrated in E Gunther 'Indian Life' Chicago 1972, p 31.
Bibliographic references: Cobbe 1979 / Cook's Voyages and Peoples of the Pacific (no. 90, p. 101); Gunther 1972 / Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America: As Seen by the Early Explorers and Fur Traders during the Last Decades of the Eighteenth Century (fig.7, p.31 app.1:175-176)
Location: On display (G1/fc21)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1979-1980 15 Feb-29 Sept, London, Museum of Mankind; Captain Cook in the South Seas 1986-1987 12 Jun-4 Jan, The Vancouver Museum, Captain George Vancouver: A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World, 1791-1795 1988 6 Apr-31 May, Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid, Spain; Art and Culture of the Northwest Coast American Indians 1988 13 Jun-31 Jul, Museo Etnologico, Barcelona, Spain; Art and Culture of the Northwest Coast American Indians 1993-95, London, Museum of Mankind, 'Treasures of the Americas' 2004 23 Feb-Present, BM Room 1, Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753-1800
Acquisition notes: Collected during one of Cook's voyages or George Vancouver's North Pacific voyage of 1791-1795.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am,NWC.105
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am17??D8.105 (old CDMS no.); Miscellaneous number: Am1796A0215.1

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