Rat figure
- Museum number:
- 2-6256
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020006256
- Alternate number:
- x-2449 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Carved "fossil" walrus ivory of running rat with red coloring in mouth, ears; hole drilled at tail end and from top to bottom.
- 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
- Taxon:
- Odobenus rosmarus
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Probably a charm with "kill hole"perforation.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 7.8 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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