Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Samuel K. Fox Museum Shop (Dillingham, Alaska) in 1988; 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
- Yup'ik (Yupik)
- Artist/Maker
- Willie Wassillie, Yup'ik (Yupik)
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Samuel K. Fox Museum
- Date created
- 1988
- Object Name
- Dance fan
- Media/Materials
- Whale bone, ivory, owl feather/feathers, stone, musk ox hide/skin, paint
- Techniques
- Carved, painted, inlaid
- Dimensions
- 43.1 x 35.8 x 1.8 cm
- Object Type
- Personal items
