Armour Item Number: 1922.950 A-B from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Description
Wooden slat body armour which has been painted and has small faces carved in a line round its middle. The slats are bound together with string-like binding; Good.
Additional description: Armour consists of curved front and back pieces, each with an upper flap. Rear piece is shorter, but curves into a tongue shape at centre. Body sections secured together with four horizontal bands of lashing. Flaps secured with two bands of lashing. Front and back body sections decorated with a row of carved heads. The two flaps have a single head at centre of each. Armour also painted with geometric shapes. (J. Tanner, 1999).
Context
Exhibited: On display in the exhibition Gifts Discoveries in the LKS gallery, between May 25 2012 and February 18 2013.Exhibited: On display in the Northwest Coast wall case on top of the wooden chest, Maudsley Gallery from 1990-2009. R.Hand, 2006'Noted by Adrienne Kaeppler, in James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific, 2009, p. 242 as 'Chugach (?)'Exhibited: On loan to 'Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage', at the Anchorage Museum, Alaska, 27 March- 7 September 2015; and the Washington State Historical Museum Tacoma/Seattle 16 October- 10 January 2016
Item History
- Made in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA
- 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
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit ?
- 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
- Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1922
Other
- Keyword
- Armour