amulet;
charm
- Museum number
- Am1921,1004.212
- Description
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Amulet or charm made from bird's head ("Great Northern Diver"), decorated with glass beads and wool pendants.
- Production date
- 1921 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 33 centimetres
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Width: 6 centimetres
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Depth: 10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1921:
Totem of Cree Indians, East Coast of Hudson Bay.
See Turner in 11th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnography.
For Donor's list see ETH DOC 1207, no. 5.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1982-1987 Jun-Jan, Museum of Mankind, Thunderbird and Lightning: Indian Life in North America, 1600-1900
1987-1990 3 Dec-Oct, London, Museum of Mankind, Living Artic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1989-1991, London, Museum of Mankind; A Victorian Earl in the Arctic: The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, 1888-9
1999 25 Jun-2011 2 Mar, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Subarctic"
- Acquisition date
- 1921
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1921,1004.212
- Additional IDs
-
Miscellaneous number: No 5 (Renouf's list (Eth. Doc. 1207))
