Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Yugtarvik Regional Museum (Bethel, Alaska) in 1988; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Cup'ik [Naparagamiut/Hooper Bay]
- Artist/Maker
- Helen Smith, Cup'ik [Naparagamiut/Hooper Bay]
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Yugtarvik Regional Museum
- IACB Source
- Carl Berger, Cup'ik [Naparagamiut/Hooper Bay]
- Date created
- 1987-1988
- Object Name
- Male doll
- Media/Materials
- Beaver skin/fur, commercial suede, feather/feathers, cotton cloth, wood, metal nails, glass bead/beads, rabbit skin/fur, wolf skin/fur, sealskin/fur
- Techniques
- Carved, sewn, overlay beadwork
- Dimensions
- 23 x 21 x 31 cm
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
