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View full screenConical hat, with onion-shaped knop at top, with a scene interwoven in dark brown strands representing men standing in canoes and harpooning whales, of woven fir root fibre: North America, Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Nuu-chah-nulth, late 18th century
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Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Late 18th century
Nuu-chah-nulth
Woven fir root fibre; scene interwoven in dark brown strands representing men standing in canoes and harpooning whales
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Cook, James, Captain, 1728 - 1779
Living Lands (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific (20 Aug 2009 - 13 Feb 2011)
Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Historisches Museum Bern
Idiens, Dale and Knowles, Chantal 2015. Cook-Voyage collections in Edinburgh, 1775-2011 from Coote, Jeremy (ed.) Cook-Voyage collections of 'Artificial Curiosities' in Britain and Ireland, 1771-2015, MEG Occasional paper no. 5, Oxford, Museum Ethnographers Group (2015) pp. 191-218.
Kaeppler, Adrienne L. 1978a. ‘Artificial Curiosities’: Being an Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, R.N. at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, January 18, 1978-August 31, 1978 on the Occasion of the Bicentennial of the European Discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain Cook-January 18, 1778 (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 65), Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press
Kaeppler, Adrienne L. 2011. Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum-An Eighteenth-Century English Institution of Science, Curiosity, and Art, Altenstadt: ZKF Publishers
Kaeppler, Adrienne L. et al. 2009. James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific, London: Thames & Hudson
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Incense cabinet (kodansu) of lacquered wood, decorated with Chinese children with dogs and fighting cockerels, containing drawers, two boxes, a writing tray with inkstone and silver water-dropper: Japan, 18th-19th century
Yatate (portable writing set) of engraved and silvered metal, with holder for ink-saturated cotton and hinged lid, and with a knife and a brush: Japan, 19th century
Pen box, case, elongated, with rounded ends, papier-mâché, painted monochrome black with dervish, hunting and pastoral scenes, laquered: West Asia, Iran, Qajar period, 19th century
Pen box sliding tray, elongated, with rounded ends, papier-mâché, painted monochrome with dervishes and horses in a landscape: West Asia, Iran, Qajar period, 19th century
Pen box, case, elongated, with rounded ends, papier-mâché, painted polychrome with scenes from literature, lacquered: West Asia, Iran, Qajar period, 19th century
Pen box sliding tray, elongated, with rounded ends, papier-mâché, painted polychrome with a landscape and flowers: West Asia, Iran, Qajar period, 19th century