club
- Museum number
- Am1949,22.239
- Description
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Ceremonial club of yew wood and stone (steatite?), with human hair, inlaid with sea otter teeth and operculum shells. Bottom of handle has stylised Janus double face with owl on top. Top of club probably a Thunderbird with human hair. Curved tapering stone blade forms aggressive tongue of figure, and reverse is beak of bird. Nootka (Cook collection).
- Production date
- 1780s
- Dimensions
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Height: 25.50 centimetres
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Width: 25 centimetres
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Depth: 5 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Register addition "Nootka". see JCH King `Artificial Curiosities of the North West Coast of America' BMP Ltd 1981. Register 1949: Nootka. Oldman Collection.
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W.O. Oldman collection; no. "772" (Oldman probate list number ? - see Eth.Doc.1307). Probably acquired with 1949Am22 collection but not registered at the time. (AMD,7/1996).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1975-1978 28 May-20 Jun, London, Museum of Mankind; The Tribal Eye
1978 18 Mar-10 Sep, Vancouver, Centennial Museum, Discovery 1778: Captain James Cook and the Peoples of the Pacific
2017 23 Feb-27 Aug, London, BM, "Where the Thunderbird Lives"
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Acquisition notes
- Collected during one of Cook's voyages.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1949,22.239
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 772 (Oldman probate list no. ?)
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Miscellaneous number: Am1972,Q.83