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bracelet
Object Type
bracelet
Museum number
Am,VAN.211.c
Description
Bracelet made of horn, shell.
Production ethnic group
Made by:
Coast Salish
Made by:
Northwest Coast Peoples
Production date
1790s
(before)
Excavator/field collector
Field Collection by:
George Goodman Hewett
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Restoration Point
(?)
Found/Acquired:
Admiralty Inlet
(?)
Materials
horn
shell
Dimensions
Circumference:
16 centimetres
(inner)
Length:
4.60 centimetres
Width:
7 centimetres
Depth:
1.75 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, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Canada; Salish Art: Visions of Power, Symbols of Wealth 1989 1 Apr-1 Oct, Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, Seattle, Washington, A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State
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.211.c
Additional IDs
CDMS number:
Am1891C25.211c
(old CDMS no.)