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robe
;
cloak
;
blanket
Object Type
robe
cloak
blanket
Museum number
Am,NWC.53
Description
Robe, cloak (with fringe), ceremonial blanket made of bark (cedar), fibre (nettle), fur (sea otter), wool (mountain goat).
Production ethnic group
Made by:
Nuu-chah-nulth
Production date
1800
(before)
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
North America
Materials
cedar bark
nettle fibre
sea otter fur
mountain goat wool
cedar root
(?)
Technique
woven
painted
Dimensions
Length:
116 centimetres
Width:
155 centimetres
Curator's comments
Evelyn Vanderhoop. S twisted twine fringe. Fringe probably pounded cedar root, not bark.
Bibliographic references
King 2000a / Nuu-chah-nulth Art at the British Museum
(fig.3, p.262)
King 1999 / First Peoples, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America
(p.131)
Samuel 1987 / The Raven's Tail
(fig.430, p.154)
King 1981 / Artificial Curiosities of the Northwest Coast of America
(col.pl.9)
Gustafson 1980 / Salish Weaving
(fig.16, p.28)
Bancroft-Hunt & Forman 1979 / People of the Totem; The Indians of the Pacific Northwest
(p.53)
Cobbe 1979 / Cook's Voyages and Peoples of the Pacific
(no. 84, p. 97)
Coe 1977 / Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art
(349)
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.1:19)
Inverarity 1950 / Art of the Northwest Coast Indians
(No 8)
Dalton & Joyce 1910 / Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections
(Plate I.)
Arima & Dewhirst 1990 / Nootkans of Vancouver Island
(fig.5 c)
Feest 1980 / Native Arts of North America
(fig.63)
Location
Not on display
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 1999 25 Jun-2006?, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Mowachaht of Vancouver Island" 2017 23 Feb-27 Aug, London, BM, "Where the Thunderbird Lives"
Acquisition name
From:
Captain James Cook
Acquisition date
1753-1800
Acquisition notes
Collected during one of Cook's voyages.
Department
Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number
Am,NWC.53
Additional IDs
CDMS number:
Am17??D8.53
(old CDMS no.)
Miscellaneous number:
Am1972Q1.43
Conservation
Treatment
: 20 Feb 2017
Treatment
: 11 May 1977
Treatment
: 27 May 1999