Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Daniel Sidney Brown (1853-1919, a St. Louis, Missouri, businessman and collector of snuff boxes and ivory objects); purchased by MAI in 1923 at an auction of items from Daniel Sidney Brown's collection held at the Walpole Galleries (New York City).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq
- Previous owner
- Daniel Sidney Brown, Non-Indian, 1853-1919
- Auction venue
- The Walpole Galleries
- Object Name
- Tobacco mortar and pestle
- Media/Materials
- Wood, hide
- Techniques
- Incised
- Object Type
- Pipes and Smoking
