Scene on a white whale jaw bone with incised and darkened drawings; 4 rows of animals, top to bottom: multi-legged insect; 3 birds; 2 seals and 1 deer-like animal, 1 weasel (?), 1 caribou.
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
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Novelty.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
14.3 centimeters and height 8.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "especially interesting because of portrayal of ribbon seal (Histriophoca fasciata). This sp. rarely seen. See foto in Walker, Mammals of the World, v. 2, p. 1305, 1968 2nd ed.; also Nelson illustrates a clothing bag made from a ribbon seal on p. 44, BAE Ann. Rep. #18. Cf. 2-179, 180, 187, 197, 554, 564 and 36894 for other examples.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)