Carving

Museum number:
2-1270
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Alternate number:
2-1270 to 2-1279 (previous museum number (recataloged from)) and 2-961 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Carving: ivory flat-bottomed birds attached to wooden board.
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
Materials:
Ivory (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Made for sale. Murre birds originally used in the game "Tingmiujag" or as toys.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 17 centimeters and width 4.5 centimeters
Comment:
Second original no. = 2-961. References: Murdoch pg. 364-5; Nelson pg. 342; Dorothy J. Ray fig. 28 Artists of the Tundra and the Sea.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-1270, described as Carving: ivory flat-bottomed birds attached to wooden board.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-1270, described as Carving: ivory flat-bottomed birds attached to wooden board.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Carving, accession number 2-1270, described as Carving: ivory flat-bottomed birds attached to wooden board.

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