- From The Collection Of
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
- Accession Number
- E1232
- Discipline
- Humanities
- Culture
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Date
- 1700 – 1809 (creation date)
- 1776 – 1779 (collection date)
- Materials and Techniques
- wood (material)
- metal (material)
- vegetable fibre (material)
- sinew (material)
- handle carved into the shape of a hawk or salmon head (technique)
- Place
- Canada (creation)
- Mowachaht (creation)
- Nootka Sound (creation)
- North America (creation)
- Vancouver Island, British Columbia (creation)
- North America (collection place)
- Related People
- Mr Henry Vaughan (1809-1899) (from the collection of);Mr George Vaughan II (from the collection of);Mr Isaac Vaughan (from the collection of);Sir Ashton Lever (from the collection of);Captain James Cook (1728-1779) (collector);HMS Discovery or HMS Resolution (1776-1779) (voyage of exploration) (collector)
- Description
- Few Nootka wood-carving tools were collected on Cook’s third voyage. This Thunderbird adze would have been used for the coarse shaping and fine finishing of wood. The handle is carved in the shape of an eagle’s head. The small amount of iron available to the Nootka in Cook’s time was transformed into blades for chisels, adzes and curved blades. Originally, blades were made from marine mollusk shells.
This object is on display at RAMM in the World Cultures gallery. - See Elsewhere
- MDS record link
- Record Rights
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
- CC 0
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