2-6172 (previous museum number (recataloged from), 2-6170k), 2-6173 (previous museum number (recataloged from), 2-6170j), 2-6174 (previous museum number (recataloged from), 2-6170f), 2-6175 (museum number (recataloged to), 2-6170c), 2-6176 (previous museum number (recataloged from), 2-6170h), 2-6177 (previous museum number (recataloged from), 2-6170b), 2-6178 (previous museum number (recataloged from), 2-6170e), 2-6179 (previous museum number (recataloged from), 2-6170g), 2-6180 (previous museum number (recataloged from), 2-6170l), 2-6181 (previous museum number (recataloged from), 2-6170d), and x-2363-74 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Carved ivory water birds (ducks or geese), all flat bottomed and perforated near tail.
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
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
From game of "fox and geese".
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Second Orig. No.: 2-6170-81. Remarks: Tingmiujaq. See Murdoch, pp. 364-65 and Ray, D.J., Artist of the Tundra and the Sea, fig. 28. cf. Nelson, p. 342.
Loans:
S1978-1979 #43: El Camino College (February 5, 1979–June 29, 1979) and S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994)