Sculpture

Museum number:
2-71504
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020071504
Accession number:
Acc.4532
Description:
Sculpture; two human faces carved back to back carved on center “ disc” of whale vertebra; two sides of the vertebra have been fashioned into arms by cutting into each other to create fingers; on bottom, in pen, “ Graburn” and “ P.V.D” ( in syllabics) = “ the anthropologist”; w. 32cm.
Donor:
Katherine Graburn and Nelson H.H. Graburn
Collection place:
Nunavut, Canada
Culture or time period:
Inuit
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sculpture (visual works)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
This object record was created because location data had been entered into the PHOEBE database without a corresponding object record. (J. Meehan 6/2003)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71504, described as Sculpture; two human faces carved back to back carved on center “ disc” of whale vertebra; two sides of the vertebra have been fashioned into arms by cutting into each other to create fingers; on bottom, in pen, “ Graburn” and “ P.V.D” ( in syllabics) = “ the anthropologist”; w. 32cm.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71504, described as Sculpture; two human faces carved back to back carved on center “ disc” of whale vertebra; two sides of the vertebra have been fashioned into arms by cutting into each other to create fingers; on bottom, in pen, “ Graburn” and “ P.V.D” ( in syllabics) = “ the anthropologist”; w. 32cm.

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