Club
Item number 1921.567.1 from the MAA: University of Cambridge.
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Description
Whalebone club with cherry bark binding round shaft and creature's, open-mouthed ?bird, head carved on top. Down the centre of the blade a design has been carved between two lines, composed of circles and triangles; good.
Context
Sarah Stones illustration (Sketchbook II:29) also appears in Force Force Art and Artefacts of the 18th Century: Objects in the Leverian Museum As Painted by Sarah Stone (1968:152).(Bio) Baroness Eliza Isy von Hgel, ne Froude, was the granddaughter of Arthur Howe Holdsworth, through her mother Catherine Henrietta Elizabeth Holdsworth. The Froudes lived in Salcombe, Devon.
Item History
- Made in Nootka Sound, British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Cook Collection, Ashton Lever, Leverian Museum, James Parkinson, John Rowe and Eliza von Hgel during 1921
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Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- Nootka Sound, British Columbia, Canada
Who
- Culture
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Received from
- Cook Collection, Ashton Lever, Leverian Museum, James Parkinson, John Rowe and Eliza von Hgel
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1921
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- Keyword
- Weapons; Ceremonial Objects
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