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Various articles at Nootka Sound / Divers articles, détroit Nootka

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Date:

1780-1784

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Art

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Item ID number:

2908394

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Captain Cook's voyages collection

Various articles at Nootka Sound / Divers articles, détroit Nootka
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Date(s):

1780-1784

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : engraving / gravure on laid paper
Support 25.600 x 34.800 cm
Platemark 20.500 x 27.700 cm

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See acc. no. 1991-265-196X., John Webber was the official artist for James Cook's Third Voyage (1776-1780) from the South Seas to the West Coast of North America. This image appears in the book of plates, companion to the second edition of the Journal of Captain Cook and James King, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...three volumes (I and II by Cook, III by King), published in 1785 by William Strahan in New Street, Shoe Lane and Thomas Cadell in the Strand, London, England. Printed by H. Hughes. This image is plate number 40., Part of a slide show edited and introduced by Douglas E. Schoenherr, Research Officer, National Archives of Canada, together with the National Film Board of Canada, 1977: Captain Cook's Last Voyage 1776-1780, Portraits and Views from the Northwest Coast by John Webber., 1. A bird, made of wood; hollow, with stone in the inside, which the Natives shake when they dance. 2. A Seal's head, made of wood, worn upon their heads. 3. A bird's head, composed of wood and feathers, also worn upon their heads. 4. Another for the same purpose and ornamented with green tail (Volume II of III, xciii).
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Artist: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Engraver: Record, John active 1768-1780
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album: Volume Two

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Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pencil, recto, u.r.: "40"

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various items from Nootke Sound
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Nootka Indians

Indian

artifact

British Columbia - Colombie Britannique

objet façonné
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Private

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00123
1991-265 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Item no. assigned by LAC [1991-265 X] 123

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1991-265 X] C-038616

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-123
Copyright: Expired / Expiré

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