Carved wooden figure of a standing crane, one foot missing; red-stained body, black legs and bill; inlaid ivory (?) eyes.
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
1889-1904
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Production date:
1890-1899
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 32 centimeters
Comment:
Published: Ray, Eskimo Art (1977), fig. 160. Remarks: "(see The Beaver, Autumn 1967, p. 83)." "Ray (1977): "....The eyes are made of ivory. Identity of the bird was written on this and others collected by Edmonds, and I suspect that he had commissioned them to be carved."
Loans:
S1964-1965 #56: Lowie Museum of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (February 24, 1965–March 29, 1965), S1987-1988 #16: California Academy of Sciences (September 11, 1987–February 19, 1988), and S1987-1988 #28: Smithsonian Institution (March 1, 1988–August 20, 1991)