bracelet

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Object Type
Museum number: Am,VAN.210.a
Description: A bracelet made of horn.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Coast Salish; Made by: Northwest Coast Peoples
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Restoration Point; Found/Acquired: Admiralty Inlet
Materials
Dimensions: Circumference: 17.50 centimetres (inner); Length: 5.25 centimetres; Width: 7 centimetres; Depth: 1.70 centimetres
Curator's comments: See "A Time of Gathering" ed. Robin Wright, Burke Museum/University of Washington Press, 1991, p.92.; Five Coast Salish bracelets are illustrated with drawings in E Gunther 'Indian Life' Chicago 1972, and desginated Van 210.; Included in Robert Douglas Leece 'Coast Salish Mountain Goat Horn Bracelets' MA thesis, Department of History in Art, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 1998.
Bibliographic references: Brotherton 2008 / S'abadeb The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists (Fig. 5.9, p. 79); Wright 1991 / A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State (No.46, p.92); 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.53, app.1:161-165) (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: 1980-1981 1 Sep-30 Apr, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Canada; Salish Art: Visions of Power, Symbols of Wealth 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 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.210.a
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am1891C25.210a-e (old CDMS no.)

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