Ceremonial Club

Provenance

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

Published

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

Related Examples

Brown, Steven C. Transfigurations: North Pacific Coast Art, George Terasaki, Collector. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2006, fig. 92