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A woman of Nootka Sound

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Date:

1780-1784

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Item ID number:

2837320

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Captain Cook's voyages collection

A woman of Nootka Sound
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Date(s):

1780-1784

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print : engraving on laid paper
Support 52.100 x 38.100 cm
Platemark 30.500 x 24.000 cm

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See acc. no. 1991-265-195X., 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 39., 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., Their common dress is a flaxen garment, or mantle, ornamented on the upper edge by a narrow strip of fur, and, at the lower edge, by fringes or tassels...Their head is covered with a cap...made of fine matting, having the top frequently ornamented with a round or pointed knob...and there is a string which passes under the chin (Volume II of III, p.304)., Digitization project: Living Memory
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Artist: Webber, John, 1751-1793

Engraver: Sharp, William 1749-1824
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General note:

album: Volume Two

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 4. Curator: Michel Anne Crawley, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2000.03.22-2000.12.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in the plate, l.l.: Drawn from Nature by J Webber; l.r.: Engravd (sic) by Wm Sharp; in pencil, recto, u.r.: "39"

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A Woman of Nootka Sount
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Nootka Indians

British Columbia

Indian

Portraits
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Private

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00122
1991-265 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication

Item no. assigned by LAC [1991-265 X] 122

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1991-265 X] C-038617

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-265-122
Copyright: Expired

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