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An image showing 'Captain Cook Birthplace Museum. First bowl, right hand raised side view.'

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An image showing 'Captain Cook Birthplace Museum. First bowl, right hand side view.'

An image showing 'Captain Cook Birthplace Museum. First bowl, top down from right.'

An image showing 'Captain Cook Birthplace Museum. First bowl, left hand raised.'

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A shallow oval wooden feast bowl, carved with a seal's head at one end and back flippers at the other, with inlaid shell spots around the rim. It is likely to have been made by the Alutiiq people, from the Cook Inlet and Kodiak Island regions of Alaska, and used for seal oil. Alutiiq life involved complex ceremony with a festival cycle in the winter. This bowl may have been used during feast celebrations to serve dishes to guests from other communities, 'Messenger Festivals'.

This bowl is believed to have been collected on Captain James Cook's 3rd voyage to the Pacific, as part of trade at Nootka Sound in March 1778.

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Object Details

ID:	AAA2836
Collection:	World Cultures
Type:	Feast bowl
Display location:	Not on display
Events:	Exploration: Cook's Third Voyage, 1776
Date made:	Before 1778
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 80 x 350 x 190 mm