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Object Type
Museum number: Am,VAN.176.a-b
Description: Basket made of root (?), grass (?) with attached lid.
Production ethnic group
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Cross Sound
Materials: root (?); grass (?)
Dimensions: Diameter: 7.30 centimetres; Height: 7.80 centimetres
Curator's comments: From acquisition "Cross Sound".
Bibliographic references: 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.1:54); 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
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.176.a-b
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am1891C25.176a:a (old CDMS no.)

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