Sculpture

Museum number:
2-71501
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020071501
Accession number:
Acc.4532
Description:
Sculpture; man carrying the front half of a walrus, ivory miniature tusks in a head of walrus( shorter one chipped at end); h. 5.3 cm. on bottom of one foot “ TIVI”, also in syllabics; on other “ SUGLUK” and “SALLU” in syllabics;
Donor:
Katherine Graburn and Nelson H.H. Graburn
Collection place:
Salluit (Sugluk), Ungava Bay, Arctic Quebec
Culture or time period:
Inuit
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Miniature (size attribute) and Sculpture (visual works)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
This object record was created because location data had been entered into the PHOEBE database without a corresponding object record. (J. Meehan 6/2003)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71501, described as Sculpture; man carrying the front half of a walrus, ivory miniature tusks in a head of walrus( shorter one chipped at end); h. 5.3 cm. on bottom of one foot “ TIVI”, also in syllabics; on other “ SUGLUK” and “SALLU” in syllabics;Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71501, described as Sculpture; man carrying the front half of a walrus, ivory miniature tusks in a head of walrus( shorter one chipped at end); h. 5.3 cm. on bottom of one foot “ TIVI”, also in syllabics; on other “ SUGLUK” and “SALLU” in syllabics;

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