Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Department of the Interior Indian Craft Shop (Washington, DC) in 1963; 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
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- DOI Indian Craft Shop (Department of the Interior Indian Craft Shop)
- Date created
- 1963
- Object Name
- Maskette
- Media/Materials
- Whale bone, ivory, baleen
- Techniques
- Carved, inlaid
- Dimensions
- 15.5 x 11.5 x 6.6 cm
- Object Type
- Masks and Masking
