Ivory hair comb; walrus ivory; engraved and darkened design of umiak with sail on one side, dog sled and hunting scene on other side. Saddle-shaped top.
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
Taxon:
Odobenus rosmarus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Combs (grooming tools)
Function:
1.8 Toilet Articles
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 7.8 centimeters
Loans:
S1961-1962 #53: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (March 15, 1961–March 15, 1962), S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965), S1966-1967 #94: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 18, 1967–April 18, 1967), S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968), and S1976-1977 #92: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (June 27, 1977–April 7, 1978)