Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Alaskan Ivory Exchange (Anchorage, Alaska) in 1983; 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
- Siberian Yupik [Gambell, St. Lawrence Island]
- Artist/Maker
- Farrell Iyakitan, Siberian Yupik [Gambell, St. Lawrence Island], b. ca. 1950
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Alaskan Ivory Exchange
- Date created
- 1981-1983
- Object Name
- Figure
- Media/Materials
- Walrus Ivory
- Techniques
- Carved, polished, incised, painted
- Dimensions
- 13 x 4 x 3.1 cm
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
