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basket
;
bowl
Object Type
basket
bowl
Museum number
Am,VAN.180
Description
Basket, bowl made of root.
Production ethnic group
Made by:
Californian Peoples
Excavator/field collector
Field Collection by:
George Goodman Hewett
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Santa Barbara
(?)
Materials
root
Technique
basketry
Dimensions
Diameter:
17 centimetres
Height:
10 centimetres
Curator's comments
Register addition "Ca" Register addition "Santa Barbara".
Bibliographic references
Dalton 1897 / Notes on an Ethnographical Collection from the West Coast of North America (more especially California), Hawaii & Tahiti, formed during the Voyage of Captain Vancouver 1790-1795
(pl.XV, no.1, p.241)
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 1999 25 Jun-2011 2 Mar, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "California"
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
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.180
Additional IDs
CDMS number:
Am1891C25.180
(old CDMS no.)