Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Department of the Interior Indian Craft Shop (Washington, DC) in 1969; 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 [Tikiġaq/Point Hope]
- Artist/Maker
- Hubert Koonuk, Iñupiaq [Tikiġaq/Point Hope], 1911-1994
- IACB source
- DOI Indian Craft Shop (Department of the Interior Indian Craft Shop)
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- Date created
- 1968
- Object Name
- Basket with cover
- Media/Materials
- Baleen, ivory, ink
- Techniques
- Coiled, carved, painted
- Dimensions
- 10.6 x 9.8 cm
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
