Club Item Number: 1922.949 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Description
Wooden slave killing club decorated with hair. The carved wooden head has an open mouth from which the wooden blade protrudes in the form of a tongue. Set into the head are teeth, and tufts of hair (?human) on the scalp, cheeks, below the nose and chin. Some tufts are missing.; Good.
Context
Loaned Out: Fundacion La Caixa, from 28/09/1999, for exhibition in Barcelona (05/10/99 - 09/01/2000) and Madrid (01/02/2000 - 02/04/2000), 'Spirits of Water. Art from Alaska and British Columbia'; returned 07/04/2000.Sarah Stones illustration (Sketchbook II:60) also appears in Force Force Art and Artefacts of the 18th Century: Objects in the Leverian Museum As Painted by Sarah Stone (1968:178).
Item History
- Made in Nootka Sound, British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Cook Collection, Ashton Lever, Leverian Museum, James Parkinson, John Rowe, Arthur Howe Holdsworth, Widdicombe House Collection and Louis C.G Clarke during 1922
What
- Name
- Club
- Identification Number
- 1922.949
- Type of Item
- club
- Material
- wood and human hair ?
Who
- Culture
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Received from
- Cook Collection, Ashton Lever, Leverian Museum, James Parkinson, John Rowe, Arthur Howe Holdsworth, Widdicombe House Collection and Louis C.G Clarke
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- Nootka Sound, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1922
Other
- Keyword
- Weapons; Ceremonial Objects