Description

Shark tooth amulet with a perforation at the wide end. [MJD 17/08/2009]

Longer Description

Shark tooth amulet with a perforation at the wide end. [MJD 17/08/2009]

Publications History

Referred to on p. 8 of 'Haida Art in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, and the Rev. Charles Harrison', by June Bedford, in European Review of Native American Studies, Vol. XII, no. 2 (1998), pp. 1-10. [JC 16 4 1999]

Primary Documentation

Accession book entry: 'From Rev. Ch. Harrison, 80 Halton Rd, Canonbury Sq. N. Collection of Haida objects collected by him.... - Shark's tooth, perforated. Probably worn as a charm-pendant, usually worn hanging from the ear. £45. [Purchase price includes 1891.49.1-110] ' Entered in different hand to all previous entries in this collection. Not known why or when. [JC 4 9 1996]

No additional information on catalogue cards. [JC 4 9 1996]

Written on object - HAIDA, C. HARRISON COLLN. PURCHASED 1891. [MJD 17/08/2009]

Related Documents File - The Haida Project Related Documents File contains video of research sessions and interviews with Haida delegates from September 2009 as part of the project ‘Haida Material Culture in British Museums: Generating New Forms of Knowledge'. It also includes post-visit communications that discuss object provenance. For extensive photographic, video, and textual records documenting the Haida research visit as a whole, including but not limited to preparations of objects for handling, travel logistics, British Museum participation, transcribed notes from research sessions and associated public events held at PRM, see the Haida Project Digital Archive, stored with the Accessions Registers. Original hand-written notes taken during research sessions have been accessioned into the Manuscripts collection, in addition to select other materials. [CAK 02/06/2010]

Research Notes

The following information comes from Haida delegates who worked with the museum's collection in September 2009 as part of the project “Haida Material Culture in British Museums: Generating New Forms of Knowledge”:
This tooth was viewed alongside other amulets on Friday Sept 11, 2009. It was identified as a great white shark tooth. It was reported that these sharks do come into Haida waters and that their teeth and bone were also traded for. [CAK 27/05/2010]

This object was viewed and confirmed as Haida by tribal members Vincent Collison, Lucille Bell, and Kwiiawah Jones on 7 September 2007 in preparation for a planned Haida community visit to PRM in 2009 [L Peers, 24/01/2008]