Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI from the Fred Harvey Company (Indian arts dealers in the Southwest) in 1916 using funds donated by Thea (Mrs. George) Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Yup'ik [Bristol Bay]
- Previous owner
- Fred Harvey Company (Fred Harvey Indian Department), 1876-1966
- Seller
- Fred Harvey Company (Fred Harvey Indian Department), 1876-1966
- Presenter/funding source
- Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
- Object Name
- Bead/beads
- Media/Materials
- Animal bone
- Techniques
- Carved, drilled, incised
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
