Walrus tusk with engraved and darkened drawings; long centipede-like animal, caribou, seals with hunters on one side, umiaks and hunters, etc. on one side; bowl has flaring mouth.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Northwest Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Taxon:
Odobenus rosmarus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pipes (smoking equipment)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Tobacco pipe.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 34.3 centimeters
Comment:
Published: Ray, Eskimo Art (1977), fig. 242. Exhibited: Centennial Caravan of U.C.B. 1968. "Ray (1977): An interpretation of the tirisuk - see 2-159 for another.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965), S1966-1967 #80: Life Sciences Bldg. Photo Lab (UC Berkeley) (March 21, 1967–April 14, 1967), and S1968-1969 #20: University of California, Berkeley (September 10, 1968–November 15, 1968)