Fragment

Item number 3007/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Deeply carved wooden fragment. Carving shows a mirrored pair of birds, sitting foot to foot. One bird ends at the neck where the wood narrows to a small rounded, pointed end. There are remnants of what appears to be a type of root(?) and a short piece of leather(?) wound around this end, as well as some black thread has been added to hold the wrappings in place. The other end has been broken off above the bird's head.

History Of Use

Possibly a fragment from a handle of an unknown object.

Narrative

Thought to have been collected during the Captain Vancouver voyage along the Northwest Coast in 1794, by a British officer named Thomas Dobson. Possibly collected in the area of Cross Sound in Alaska. Sold at auction in London at Sotheby's in 1983 with other objects from the same collection. Acquired by MOA via Miriam Schiell Fine Art, who purchased the object for the Museum from an auction at the New York Sotheby's in 2013.