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Object Type
Museum number: Am,NWC.41
Description: Club made of bone (whale), shell (haliotis), gum (spruce), cord.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Nuu-chah-nulth; Made by: Northwest Coast Peoples
Production date: 1795 (before)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Nootka Sound
Materials: whalebone; haliotis shell; spruce gum; fibre
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 58 centimetres; Width: 8 centimetres
Curator's comments: see JCH King `First Peoples, First Contacts' British Museum Press 1999; see JCH King `Artificial Curiosities of the North West Coast of America' BMP Ltd 1981
Bibliographic references: King 2000a / Nuu-chah-nulth Art at the British Museum (fig.4, p.263); King 1999 / First Peoples, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America (p.136); King 1981 / Artificial Curiosities of the Northwest Coast of America (col.pl.70); Coe 1977 / Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art (341); 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 (app.1:35); Inverarity 1950 / Art of the Northwest Coast Indians (No 142); Attenborough 1976 / The Tribal Eye (p.36)
Location: On display (G26/dc6)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1976-1977 7 Oct-16 Jan, London, The Hayward Gallery 1977 16 Apr-19 Jun, Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Sacred Circles: 2,000 Years of North American Indian Art 1978 18 Mar-10 Sept, Vancouver, Centennial Museum, Discovery 1778: Captain James Cook and the Peoples of the Pacific 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 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' 1999 25 Jun-Present, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Mowachaht of Vancouver Island"
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1796
Acquisition notes: Collected on George Vancouver's North Pacific voyage of 1791-1795.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am,NWC.41
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am1796D8.41 (old CDMS no.); Miscellaneous number: 51 (Banks Collection No.); Miscellaneous number: Am1796A0213.1

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