Captain Cook’s Club to Head to Canadian Museum
John Mackie of the Vancouver Sun reports that Donald Ellis and philanthropist Michael Audain have returned a Nuu-chah-nulth club to the Museum of Anthropology at UBC
18th century or earlier
wood
width: 13 ¼"
Inventory # N3835
Sold
acquired by the Audain Foundation, now at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC
Collected by Captain James Cook at Friendly Cove, Nootka Sound, on his Third Voyage to the Pacific, 1776–1780
Sir Ashton Lever, Leverian Museum, Leicester Square, London, United Kingdom, 1780–1786
Dr. James Parkinson, London, United Kingdom, 1786–1806
Leverian Museum Collection auction, July 8, 1806
Richard Hall Clarke Esq., Bridwell, Uffculme, NorthDevon, United Kingdom, then by descent, 1806–1967
Bearnes Sales Rooms, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom, December 12, 1967
J.J. Klejman, New York, NY, 1967
S.K. Bennet, Washington, DC, 1968–2006
George Terasaki, New York, NY
The Sarah Stone Watercolour Sketchbook, Vol II, 1783, Bishop Museum Archives, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Leverian Museum auction catalogue, 1806 (an original edition of the catalogue is housed in Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives,
cat. no. GBR/0012/MS Add.6309)
Johnson, Harmer. Leverian Museum: A Companion to the Museum 1790 and The Sale Catalogue of the Entire Collection, 1806. London, Harmer Johnson and John Hewett, 1979 (Reprint)
Force, Roland W. and Force, Maryanne. Art and Artifacts of the 18th Century: Objects in the Leverian Collection as Painted by Sarah Stone. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1968, pg. 144
Kaeppler, Adrienne. Artificial Curiosities: An Exposition of Native Manufactures, Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook RN. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1978, pg. 257, fig. 558
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2012, pl 8
Brown, Steven C. Transfigurations: North Pacific Coast Art, George Terasaki, Collector. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2006, fig. 92
John Mackie of the Vancouver Sun reports that Donald Ellis and philanthropist Michael Audain have returned a Nuu-chah-nulth club to the Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Maclean’s reports that Donald Ellis has negotiated the donation of a Nuu-chah-nulth club gifted to Capt. James Cook to the Museum of Anthropology at UBC
A featured article in The Globe and Mail announces that a significant relic of Captain James Cook has returned to BC thanks to the efforts of Donald Ellis and Michael Audain
$45.00 USD