totem-pole

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Object Type
Museum number: Am1903,0314.1
Description: Totem pole carved of wood (cedar).
Production ethnic group: Made by: Haida; Made by: Northwest Coast Peoples
Production date: 1850 (circa)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Kayang; Found/Acquired: Masset
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 12 metres (estimate); Weight: 1.20 metres (estimate)
Curator's comments: The BM Pictorial Collection owns two photographic prints of this totem pole in its original location. See Am-B43-24 and Am-B43-25.
Bibliographic references: Rhyne 2009 / The Challenge of International Standards: Nineteenth Century Native American Totem Poles as a Case Study (p. 212); Dalton & Joyce 1910 / Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections (Fig. 236); Attenborough 1976 / The Tribal Eye (p.30)
Location: On display (Great Court)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2008 7 Jun-Present, BM Great Court, Permanent display 2006 15 Jul-2008 7 Jun, BM North Staircase, Permanent display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1903
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am1903,0314.1
Conservation: Treatment: 17 Jun 1999; Gallery Clean: 12 Aug 2014; Gallery Clean: 12 May 2012; Gallery Clean: 12 Jan 2017; Gallery Clean: 29 Nov 2004; Treatment: 16 Aug 2007; Treatment: 06 Nov 2000; Treatment: 04 Sep 2000; Treatment: 20 Jun 1997; Treatment: 04 May 1993; Treatment: 14 May 1991; Treatment: 11 Mar 2003; Treatment: 25 Sep 2002

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