Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Tomahawk & Bow.
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Accession number:
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67-322
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Record number:
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67-322-1
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JCB call number:
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D792 P412i
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Image title:
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Tomahawk & Bow.
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Creator 1:
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Peter Mazell
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Creator 1 dates:
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fl. 1761-1797
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Creator 1 role:
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sculp.
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Place image published:
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[London]
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Image publisher:
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[Robert Faulder]
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Image date:
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[1792]
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Image function:
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plate; vol. [1], following p. ccxxxviii [238]
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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21.6 cm. (platemark)
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Image dimension width:
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16.5 cm. (platemark)
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Page dimension height:
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23.7 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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17.8 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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English
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Description:
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A bow made of bone shown from both sides and a tomahawk on which is carved a human face. On the bow are depicted elk, reindeer, dogs, walrus, seals, whales, and birds.
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Source creator:
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Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
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Source Title:
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[Arctic zoology] Introduction to the Arctic zoology.
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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Printed for Robert Faulder, New Bond Street.
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Source date:
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M.DCC.XCII. [1792]
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notes:
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Text notes that the author had these items "brought by the navigators from this side of North America" and engraved. The tomahawk is from Nootka Sound and is made of wood, stone, human scalp, and human and other teeth. It is called a Taaweesh or Tsuskeah. Nootka Sound is on the west coast of Vancouver Island, present-day British Columbia. Thomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary. Peter Mazell was a British engraver of flowers and animals.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1967.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Arctic
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Eskimos--Implements
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