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Etching and lithograph by Lyle Wilson titled 'Ode to Billy Holm... Lalooska Duane Pasco... Johnathon Livingston Seagull', 1980. Edition: Artist's proof (Remarque 1/1). Inscribed, signed and dated by the artist. With black string across the top of the print and leaved embedded into the paper. Condition: very good- creases in paper, which appear part of the original process of manufacturing the paper.
Serigraph print by LesLIE (Leslie Robert Sam) titled 'Salmon Eggs', 2005. Edition: artists proof (museum remarque 1/1). Condition: excellent
Print by Sonny Assu titled, 'Live from the Latch', 2012. Edition 27/67. Comes with a certificate signed and dated by the artist. Condition: excellent
The spear throwers are Pacific Eskimo, Chugach (J.C.H.King, Museum of Mankind - 12 1992). The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.; The throwers added power and distance to small spears or darts used in the hunting of seals, sea otters and whales.; Exhibited: One of the spear throwers B) rests on a Qayaq in the CUMAA new Anthropological displays 1990-. Spear thrower A) was loaned by CUMAA to the Vancouver Centennial Museum May 1986, returned January 1987.; Collected by: Swaine.Admiral.Spelman in 1794. Literature: Also see the 'Catalogue of the Northwest Coast Collection: Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology' (1996), Dr Gillian Crowther. (J.Tanner, May 1998). King (1994) notes that he found only one North American record relating to a spear (dart) thrower in the Wisbech Museum records. Although there are three others mentioned as 1851.96.3-5, their provenance is given as Hawaiian. (J.Tanner, December 1998). See 'From Pacific Shores: Eighteenth-century Ethnographic Collections at Cambridge - The Voyages of Cook, Vancouver and the First Fleet' (J. Tanner, 1999:77). See 'Artificial Curiosities from the Northwest Coast of America (J.C.H. King, 1981: cf. Monochrome Plate 25; 21). Vancouver Collection: George Vancouver (1758-1798) was born in King' s Lynn, Norfolk. His father, John Jasper Vancouver was assistant collector of customs at King's Lynn, which was at that time a busy seaport. It is believed that through his connections he was able to bring George to the attention of Captain James Cook, who was then preparing to sail on the second of his world voyages. Thus George entered the Royal Navy in 1771 upon receiving an appointment from Cook and thereby gained a rigorous training in seamanship. In 1791 Vancouver was sent on a mission to receive the surrender of the Spanish post at Nootka Sound in present day British Columbia, to survey the coast of the American Northwest, and to search for a water connection to the eastern part of the continent. He wrote a lengthy account of his voyage entitled, ' A Voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and Round the World' (1798). It was on this latter voyage that Spelman Swaine accompanied Vancouver and acquired the objects held at UCMAA. Spelman Swaine was born on 1st January 1769 at Lynn Regis in Norfolk and died on 13th January 1848 at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. His forebears had risen from the ranks of yeoman farmers to gain land in the village of Leverington and build Leverington Hall about 1640, which was held by the family until the end of the 18th century. Swaine himself was brought up at Swanns, another mansion in Leverington, but later moved to Wisbech. He began his naval career in April 1782 and by the October he saw action as midshipman on the ' Recovery' in Lord Howe' s relief of Gibraltar. Thereafter, he lead an eventful and distinguished naval career, finally gaining the rank of Rear Admiral in 1846. In particular, the Swaine collection at UCMAA originates from his period with Captain George Vancouver' s expedition round the world between 1791 and 1795 on the HMS Discovery, as midshipman and later lieutenant. Swaine and his family gave a small but important collection from this voyage to Wisbech Museum, which were later acquired by UCMAA. (J. Tanner, 1999). 'Exhibited: B: On display on top of the kayak in the Maudslay Hall, 1990-2012'
Coiled cedar root basket and lid with cedar slat foundation. Imbricated designs in black dyed cherry bark and cat-tail. Parallel slat construction. Lid has slat edge with overcast splint construction. Cherry bark beading decorates edge of lid. (The lid is currently on top of basket A8454, but does not appear to be original to that basket?)
Limited edition print 86/99, Mirror Images by Coast Salish artist Susan Point, showing two decorated paddles end to end.
Black glass box with four sides and a clear glass base, open at top. The upper edge undulates from side to side. The outside surface is plain black, the inside surface of the four sides is etched with a distributive Northwest Coast design. A black and white photograph sits on the clear glass base, which is lit from below while installed/on display. The photograph shows a group of girls standing in front of the side of a building, with their teacher.
Photo-based work showing a section of the Museum's Great Hall in 1991. Image shows poles and house posts installed around the front area windows of the Great Hall (visible: A50019, A50001, A50006, A50036; partially visible: A50020, A50037). The outdoor exhibit area with the Haida House and Mortuary House are partially visible through the windows. Photograph is framed with white painted wood and plexiglas.
Photo-based work showing a section of the Museum's Great Hall in 1991. Image shows a large house post figure with slave figures crouched in front of it (A50009 d-f), as installed in the Great Hall. Photograph is framed with white painted wood and plexiglas.
Photo-based work showing a section of the Museum's Great Hall in 1991. Image shows a Kwakwaka'wakw bear house post (A50036) in front of the Great Hall windows. The view outside the windows shows a partial ocean view in front of mountains to the north, and part of a tree on the museum grounds. Photograph is framed with white painted wood and plexiglas.