Carving

Museum number:
2-214
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020000214
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Scene on a white whale jaw bone with incised and darkened drawings; on one side are birds, various animals, caribou hunting scene and sea mammal hunting scene; on reverse are hares or rabbits, hunters in umiaks harpooning a spouting whale, insects, an owl, etc.
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
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 6.3 centimeters and width 17.1 centimeters
Loans:
S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-214, described as Scene on a white whale jaw bone with incised and darkened drawings; on one side are birds, various animals, caribou hunting scene and sea mammal hunting scene; on reverse are hares or rabbits, hunters in umiaks harpooning a spouting whale, insects, an owl, etc.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-214, described as Scene on a white whale jaw bone with incised and darkened drawings; on one side are birds, various animals, caribou hunting scene and sea mammal hunting scene; on reverse are hares or rabbits, hunters in umiaks harpooning a spouting whale, insects, an owl, etc.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-214, described as Scene on a white whale jaw bone with incised and darkened drawings; on one side are birds, various animals, caribou hunting scene and sea mammal hunting scene; on reverse are hares or rabbits, hunters in umiaks harpooning a spouting whale, insects, an owl, etc.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-214, described as Scene on a white whale jaw bone with incised and darkened drawings; on one side are birds, various animals, caribou hunting scene and sea mammal hunting scene; on reverse are hares or rabbits, hunters in umiaks harpooning a spouting whale, insects, an owl, etc.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-214, described as Scene on a white whale jaw bone with incised and darkened drawings; on one side are birds, various animals, caribou hunting scene and sea mammal hunting scene; on reverse are hares or rabbits, hunters in umiaks harpooning a spouting whale, insects, an owl, etc.

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