mask;
frontlet
- Museum number
- Am,NWC.71
- Description
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Wolf's head mask, frontlet made of wood, mica, teeth (mammal), shells (dentalium), hide, stone (talc), cord, gum (spruce).
- Production date
- 1780s (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 11 centimetres ((mask))
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Length: 83 centimetres ((hanging))
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Length: 22 centimetres ((mask))
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Width: 10 centimetres ((mask))
- 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
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Illustrated in E Gunther 'Indian Life' Chicago 1972, p 21.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1979-1980 15 Feb-29 Sept, London, Museum of Mankind; Captain Cook in the South Seas
1999 25 Jun-2003 Feb, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Mowacht of Vancouver Island"
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1800
- Acquisition notes
- Collected during one of Cook's voyages.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,NWC.71
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am17??D8.71 (old CDMS no.)
