Artificial curiosities from the northwest coast of America
Subtitle: native American artefacts in the British Museum collected on the third voyage of Captain James Cook and acquired through Sir Joseph Banks
By: J.C.H. King.
Contributors: Cook, James, 1728-1779.; Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820.; British Museum. Dept. of Ethnography.
Publisher: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications
Published: 1981
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: British Museum. Dept. of Ethnography -- Exhibitions; Indians of North America -- Industries -- Northwest Coast of North America -- Exhibitions; Indians of North America -- Northwest coast of North America -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions; Northwest coast of North America -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions
Description: Description of the North American section of the Cook collection, and three further eighteenth-century accessions of Pacific North American artifacts. Catalogue discusses in detail, and illustrates 137 Aleut, Eskimo and Indian artefacts, most of which are from British Columbia and Alaska.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 107-112.
A collection of the Department of Ethnography of the British Museum.
Includes index.