Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, B3 3DH

WEBSITE ▪ E: BMAG.Enquiries@birminghammuseums.org.uk

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery’s World Cultures collection consists of around 9,000 items and includes material from North, South and Central America.

Particular highlights include an intricately decorated Cree woollen hood and a carved argillite bowl in the form of a bear (Haida).

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Cree woollen cloth hood

Argillite bowl in the form of a bear. Attributed to Charles Edenshaw (Haida).

Argillite bowl in the form of a bear. Attributed to Charles Edenshaw (Haida).

Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

WEBSITE ▪ E: museum.collections@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Nottingham Museums host a varied collection of material relating to Native North America, comprising over 300 items.

The North American material is spread across the World Cultures and Costumes & Textiles collections of the museum. Of particular significance is a large collection of Pueblo ceramic figurines, some of which are listed below.

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Earthenware bottle with hand-drawn turtle and leaf motifs. Pueblo Indian.

Earthenware figure of a man. Standing upright with painted clothing. Probably Cochiti Pueblo.

Earthenware jug, probably Pueblo Indian. White with black geometric pattern.

Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery

Riversley Park, Nuneaton, CV11 5TU

WEBSITEE: museum@nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk

Located in the grounds of Riversley Park, Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery holds a permanent collection that includes items from North America.

Of particular significance is a Plains beaded shirt dating from c. 1885 which is thought to originate from Montana. The museum also holds assorted Hopi items from North East Arizona.

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Plains beaded shirt c. 1885. Thought to be from Montana.

Hopi beaded bag from North-East Arizona.

Hopi doll originating from North-East Arizona.

Museum of Leathercraft, Northampton

Grosvenor Shopping Centre, Northampton, NN1 2EW

WEBSITEE: info@nationalleathercollection.org

Based in Northampton, the Museum of Leathercraft boasts a unique range of material. The collection includes over 50 Native American artefacts as well as replica items created by collector A. D. Burdett.

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Replica horn bonnet made by A. D. Burnett in the Northern Plains style.

Pair of buckskin moccasins. Probably North-Eastern Micmac.

Cheyenne pipe-bag

Museums Worcestershire

Foregate St, Worcester WR1 1DT

WEBSITEE: museumcollections@worcestershire.gov.uk

Although the collections that comprise Museums Worcestershire largely reflect the cultural history of the local area, there are a small number of ethnographic items, including clothing and historic artefacts from North America.

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Embroidered type slippers on lightly smoked caribou hide. c1900 – 1910.

North Alaskan seal gut parka. Pre-1820.

Detail of wood panel cradleboard with bent wood bumper bar with decorative beadwork, thimbles and hawk bells on canvas. c.1900 – 1910

Northampton Museum & Art Gallery

4-6 Guildhall Road, Northampton, NN1 1DP

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The collection of Northampton Museum & Art Gallery tells stories of the people of Northampton and the town’s international shoemaking significance. The world shoe collection contains around 40 pairs of Native American moccasins and boots.

Particular highlights include a pair of Sioux beaded funerary moccasins and Huron snowshoes.

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Iroquois moccasins, 1780

Cree moccasin boots

Iroquois beaded moccasins

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

Terrace Road, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6DA

WEBSITE ▪ E:  buxton.museum@derbyshire.gov.uk

Based in the centre of the historic spa town of Buxton in the Peak District, the museum holds a collection largely related to the archaeology, social history and geology of the area, including a small, but significant World Cultures collection, some of which once formed part of the Derbyshire School Library Service.

The museum has been engaged in a repatriation programme to return significant pieces from the Native American and First Nations collection to home communities. This includes potlatch material from Haida Gwaii, examples clothing and shoes with beaded decoration from the Plains Indians and Cree, and basket work by the Akimel O’odham. There is also a significant collection of Inuit material that is part of the remaining permanent collection, and which compliments the Franklin Archive at the Derbyshire Record Office.

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Walrus ivory toggle in the shape of a seal. Yup’ik Inuit, Alaska, late 19th century

Tupilak carved from a sperm whale tooth. Kalaallit Inuit, Greenland, mid-20th century

Marine ivory carving of an Inuit seal hunter, early 20th century. From Hebron, Labrador, Canada