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
Materials:
Flint (rock) and Walrus ivory
Taxon:
Odobenus rosmarus
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
dressing of skins
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 10.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. Nelson Pl. XLIX.
Loans:
S1967-1968 #128: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (April 24, 1968–June 7, 1968), S1972-1973 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Thomas Roy Hester (April 20, 1973–June 13, 1973), S1973-1974 #29: Archaeological Research Facility/Karen M. Nissen (October 31, 1973–December 3, 1973), and S1982-1983 #4: State University of New York/Peter E. Siegal (August 1, 1982–March 14, 1983)