- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ornament consisting of two long thin curved pieces of bone [.1,.2] and a boar's tusk [.3] with the root cavity plugged with wood. The two bone pieces bound together with a textile strip. [El.B 6/12/2005]
- Long description
- Ornament consisting of two long thin curved pieces of bone [.1,.2] and a boar's tusk [.3] with the root cavity plugged with a carved piece of wood. The two bone pieces bound together with a textile strip. [CAK 23/06/2009]
- Geographical reference
- British Columbia Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) NW Coast
- Cultural groups
- Haida
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1924
- Date collected
- By 1924
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1924 Found unentered: Found unentered
- Materials and processes
- Material Bone, Material Wood Plant, Material Textile, Process Perforated, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 100 mm, Length: max 100 mm, Length: max 95 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1891.49.118.1 Accession number: 1891.49.118.2 Accession number: 1891.49.118.3
- Research and responses
The following information comes from Haida delegates who worked with the museum’s collection in September 2009 as part of the project “Haida Material Culture in British Museums: Generating New Forms of Knowledge”:
This object was viewed alongside shamanic objects on Friday Sept 11, 2009. Christian White identified the bone as wild pig bone. He noted that wild pigs are not native to Haida Gwaii and thus the material would have been traded for. See also 1891.49.110 and 1891.49.117. [CAK 31/03/2010]
- Associated publications
- Referred to on p. 8 of 'Haida Art in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, and the Rev. Charles Harrison', by June Bedford, in European Review of Native American Studies, Vol. XII, no. 2 (1998), pp. 1-10. [JC 16 4 1999]
1891.49.118.1
Ornament consisting of two long thin curved pieces of bone [.1,.2] and a boar's tusk [.3] with the root cavity plugged with wood. The two bone pieces bound together with a textile strip. [El.B 6/12/2005]
1891.49.118.1
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