Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Thea (Mrs. George) Heye and donated to MAI by her or purchased by MAI from an unknown source with funds donated by her in 1921.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]
- Possible owner
- Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
- Presenter/funding source
- Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
- Object Name
- Box
- Media/Materials
- Ivory, hide thong/babiche, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Inlaid
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
