hat

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Object Type: hat
Museum number: Am1981,25.82
Description: Register 1981: Hat with ducks, whales and hunters design made of cedar bark fibre and spruce root.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Ahousaht; Made by: Nuu-chah-nulth
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: Jonathan C H King (British Museum Ethnography Dept. staff; field collection)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Vancouver Island (?); Found/Acquired: Washington (state) (?)
Materials: cedar bark fibre; spruce root
Technique: dyed; twined (basketry); plaited
Dimensions: Diameter: 29 centimetres; Height: 26 centimetres
Curator's comments: Donors' Book "Collection from Vancouver Island and Washington". Ahousaht = sub-division of Aht.
Bibliographic references: Carey 1991 / Collecting the 20th Century (p.27)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1991 4 Oct-1992 16 Feb, BM Room 91; Collecting in the Twentieth Century
Acquisition date: 1981
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am1981,25.82

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