Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from Alaska Native Arts and Crafts (Anchorage, Alaska) in 1981; 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
- Iñupiaq
- Artist/Maker
- Aloysius Pikonganna, Iñupiaq, 1909-1986
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Association, Inc. (Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Clearing House/Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative/ANAC Association, Inc.), 1937-
- Date created
- 1981
- Object Name
- Figural group
- Media/Materials
- Walrus Ivory, sinew, ink
- Techniques
- Carved, drilled, painted
- Dimensions
- 15.1 x 3.9 x 4.3 cm
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
