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Object Type
Museum number: Am,NWC.64
Description: Woman with child figure made of wood.
Production ethnic group
Production date: 1778 (before)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: North America
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 27.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Kaeppler 2009 / James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific (419) (no. incorrectly given as Am.1878,1101.622); King 1999 / First Peoples, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America (p.145); Moore 1981 / Henry Moore at the British Museum (pp.120-121); King 1981 / Artificial Curiosities of the Northwest Coast of America (col.pl.14); Cobbe 1979 / Cook's Voyages and Peoples of the Pacific (no. 91, pp. 104-105); Coe 1977 / Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art (299); Fagg 1977 / The tribal image: wooden figure sculpture of the world (no. 10); Inverarity 1950 / Art of the Northwest Coast Indians (No 244)
Location: On display (G26/dc5)
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 1987 15 Jul-1995 15 Jul, Museum of Mankind, Introduction to the Collections 1998 13 Oct-13 Dec, Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Henry Moore: Friendship and Influence 1999 25 Jun-2009 Apr, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Mowacht of Vancouver Island" 2009-2010 28 Aug-28 Feb, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific 2010 10 May-13 Sep, The Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, Austria, James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific 2010-2011 7 Oct-13 Feb, Historical Museum of Bern, Switzerland, James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific 2011 30 Mar-Present, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Nuu-chah-nulth of Vancouver Island"
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1780
Acquisition notes: Collected during one of Cook's voyages.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am,NWC.64
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am1780D8.64 (old CDMS no.); Miscellaneous number: Am1780A1110.2

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