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Object Type
Museum number: Am,VAN.160
Description: Standing figure made of wood, glass, hair (human), leather, beads.
Production ethnic group
Production date: 18thC(early)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Admiralty Inlet; Found/Acquired: Restoration Point
Materials: wood; glass; human hair; leather
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 37 centimetres; Width: 8.50 centimetres; Depth: 5.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: Illustrated in E Gunther 'Indian Life' Chicago 1972, p 83.
Bibliographic references: Wayman 1992 / Aspects of Early North American Metallurgy (pp. 57-58); Brotherton 2008 / S'abadeb The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists (Fig. 5.7, p. 76); Wright 1991 / A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State (No.79, p.123); Glenbow 1987b / The Spirit Sings: Artistic traditions of Canada's First Peoples: A Catalogue of the Exhibition (N 69, p.146); 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 (fig.30, p.83, app.1:10) (line drawing); King 1994 / Vancouver's Ethnography: A preliminary description of five inventories from the voyage of 1791-95
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 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 15 Jan-1 May, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples 1988 1 Jul-1 Nov, Museum of Civilization, Lorne Building, Ottawa, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples 1989 1 Apr-1 Oct, Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, Seattle, Washington, A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State 2008-2009 24 Oct-11 Jan, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, S'abadeb-The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists 2009-2010 20 Nov-8 Mar, Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, Canada, S'abadeb-The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1891
Acquisition notes: Collected on George Vancouver's voyage to Hawaii and the NW coast of North America 1791-1795.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am,VAN.160
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am1891C25.160 (old CDMS no.)

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