Thought provoking and still relevant On 25 June 1786 21-year-old Alexander Walker, ensign on a fur-trading expedition from Bombay led by the merchant James Strange, sighted the north-west coast of https://t.co/Ccamp70uzu
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IOW, this is a sea-otter fur liner for a Qing robe! Chinese demand for sea otter fur -- as liners, as trim -- encouraged Russian, Spanish, British, and US traders to go to Yuquot to trade with Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations people. In 1806, Canton imported
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Teaching Maxine Berg's article on the sea otter/iron trade https://t.co/W2SrlRVe8v and looking for related objects...like a sea otter robe liner (a steal for US$1,000 at auction!) https://t.co/8vfkAwFUkG https://t.co/srMy4hdmZJ
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@CathleenSarti Maxine Berg has written about the sea otter fur trade recently, apparently the furs were in high demand in the Qing court: https://t.co/6IWHzxor9e