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LOOKING BOTH WAYS (NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, WASHINGTON, DC, USA, )
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).
'B: Exhibited in the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby in 'Smoking Coasts and Ice-bound Seas, Cook's Voyage to the Arctic' Feb- November 2008'A: Made of goat's horn from the Dene and B: made of sheep's horn, from Prince William Sound. From notes by J.C.H. King June 2014B: 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