club
- Museum number
- Am,NWC.98
- Description
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Human-shaped club made of wood, stone, gum (spruce), shell, hair (human), teeth.
- Dimensions
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Length: 13 centimetres (of blade)
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Length: 34 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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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 41 where it is wrongly numbered NWC 97.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2009 28 Aug-2010 28 Feb, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
2010 10 May-13 Sep, The Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, Austria
2010 7 Oct-2011 13 Feb, Historical Museum of Bern, Switzerland;
James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1800
- Acquisition notes
- Collected during one of Cook's voyages.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,NWC.98
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am17??D8.98 (old CDMS no.)
