Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from Alaska Native Arts and Crafts (Juneau, Alaska) in 1959; 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
- Bering Strait Iñupiaq [King Island]
- 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
- 1959
- Object Name
- Figure
- Media/Materials
- Walrus Ivory, ink
- Techniques
- Carved, incised, painted
- Dimensions
- 3.2 x 2.5 x 6.3 cm
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
