© British Museum
Collection of ethnographic items
Artist: Native American
Location: British Museum
Date: circa 1775 - 1910
Materials: multi-media, mostly organic materials
Dimensions: various
Grant:
Amount Paid: £50,000 (Total: £553,136)
Vendor: Anonymous
Review number: 5207 (2003)
Provenance:
Stonyhurst College. On loan to the British Museum from 1977 to 2003.
Description:
A collection of 76 objects, mostly from North America which was assembled at Stonyhurst college, a Jesuit school founded in 1797. The key items are 15 articles of war, ceremonial and domestic use, brought to England in 1825 for an Irish-American school boy, Bryan Mullanphy from St. Louis. They include a skin map showing the drainages of the Mississippi, Wabash and Ohio Rivers circa 1773-5. The 10 non-North American works are from the Pacific, Guyana, Africa and Asia.
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