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Object Type
Museum number: Am,VAN.219
Description: Comb carved of wood.
Production ethnic group
Production date: 1795 (before)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Admiralty Inlet; Found/Acquired: Restoration Point
Materials
Technique
Bibliographic references: Brotherton 2008 / S'abadeb The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists (Fig. 5.10, p. 80); Wright 1991 / A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State (p.31, fig.3 & No.66, p.109) (line drawing on p.31); Glenbow 1987b / The Spirit Sings: Artistic traditions of Canada's First Peoples: A Catalogue of the Exhibition (N 26, p.138); 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.1:182); King 1994 / Vancouver's Ethnography: A preliminary description of five inventories from the voyage of 1791-95; Jonaitis 2006 / Art of the Northwest Coast (31)
Location: On display (G1/fc21)
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 1988 15 Jan-1 May, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples 1988 1 Jul-1 Nov, Museum of Civilization, Lorne Building, Ottawa, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples 1989 1 Apr-1 Oct, Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, Seattle, Washington, A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State 1993-1995, London, Museum of Mankind, Treasures of the Americas 2004-2008 23 Feb-8 Oct, BM Room 1, Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century 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 2011 Mar-Present, BM Room 1, Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century
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.219
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am1891C25.219 (old CDMS no.)

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