Small carved wooden figure of a human being with a carved animal headdress. Figure's hands clasped over drawn-up left knee; shell inset eyes; traces of red pigment. This figure has white and black eyes apparently made of shell. It is clasping the left knee in both hands, this leg being bent up.
Donor:
Mrs. H. H. Bancroft
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)
Collector:
J. J. H. Van Bokkelen and Mrs. H. H. Bancroft
Collection date:
1858
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used as a club for killing salmon by striking them upon the head.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 15.5 inches
Comment:
Published: "Illustrated in RHLMA catalog, "Art of the Northwest Coast", Spring exhibit, March 26-Oct. 17, 1965, p. 109.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957), S1965-1966 #86a: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (May 19, 1966–September 6, 1966), S1970-1971 #21: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (October 12, 1970–January 20, 1971), S1974-1975 #41: Palo Alto Cultural Center (January 6, 1975–March 19, 1975), and S1979-1980 #48: University of California, Davis (April 1, 1980–June 9, 1980)