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Object Type
Museum number: Am,VAN.94
Description: Club made of bone, with animal head with open mouth showing teeth carved at one end, sides carved with circles and trigons.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Northwest Coast Peoples; Made by: Klallam (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Admiralty Inlet; Found/Acquired: Port Discovery
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 9 centimetres; Length: 53 centimetres; Width: 3.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: Registration Slip addition "Washington, USA" and "Port Discovery, Admiralty Inlet". See "A Time of Gathering", Robin Wright (ed), Burke Museum/University of Washington Press, 1991, p.110.
Bibliographic references: Brotherton 2008 / S'abadeb The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists (Fig. 5.11, p. 80); Wright 1991 / A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State (No.67, p.111); 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.1:38); King 1994 / Vancouver's Ethnography: A preliminary description of five inventories from the voyage of 1791-95
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 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 1993-1995, London, Museum of Mankind, 'Treasures of the Americas' 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.94
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Am1891C25.94 (old CDMS no.)

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