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Museum number
Am,VAN.32
Description
Arrow made of shell (pinna), wood, bark, feathers.
Production ethnic group
Made by:
Northwest Coast Peoples
Excavator/field collector
Field Collection by:
George Goodman Hewett
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Juan de Fuca, Strait of
Materials
pinna shell
wood
bark
feather
Bibliographic references
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.1:276)
King 1994 / Vancouver's Ethnography: A preliminary description of five inventories from the voyage of 1791-95
Location
Not on display
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.32
Additional IDs
CDMS number:
Am1891C25.32
(old CDMS no.)