Container

Museum number:
2-1542
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020001542
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Section of walrus tusk with engraved dog, tree-like designs. Inset wood lid and base. Thong in lid. Rawhide.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Taxon:
Odobenus rosmarus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Containers (receptacles)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 5.8 centimeters
Loans:
S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Container, accession number 2-1542, described as Section of walrus tusk with engraved dog, tree-like designs. Inset wood lid and base. Thong in lid. Rawhide.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Container, accession number 2-1542, described as Section of walrus tusk with engraved dog, tree-like designs. Inset wood lid and base. Thong in lid. Rawhide.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Container, accession number 2-1542, described as Section of walrus tusk with engraved dog, tree-like designs. Inset wood lid and base. Thong in lid. Rawhide.

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