Board with 26 small animal carvings of wood, bone, and ivory. Includes 1 Eskimo crawling, seals, walruses, fish, miscellaneous animals. Board has black-painted scenes of whale-hunting, dog sled, etc.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Used for sale
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
19.5 centimeters and width 29.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965) and S1975-1976 #9: Palo Alto Cultural Center (November 1974–unknown)