bracelet

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Object Type
Museum number: Am,VAN.211.b
Description: Bracelet made of dark brown horn. The horn is carved into spiral patterns and has two shell beads embedded in it.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Coast Salish; Made by: Northwest Coast Peoples
Production date: 1790s (before)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Restoration Point (?); Found/Acquired: Admiralty Inlet (?)
Materials: horn; shell (bead)
Technique
Dimensions: Circumference: 18 centimetres (inner); Length: 4.75 centimetres; Width: 7.50 centimetres; Depth: 2.25 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Wright 1991 / A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State (No.47, 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 (app.1:166-170); 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, Canada, University of British Columbia, Museum of Anthropology; 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
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.211.b
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am1891C25.211a-b (old CDMS no.)

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