Walrus tusk with engraved and darkened drawings. Numerous drawings on all surfaces including reindeer going into a corral, flying geese, seal hunting, summer caribou hunting. Animals and men carved in full relief on two sides. Separate stem and (b) bowl with 2 birds and 1 man (badly damaged) carved in the round. Elaborately carved and engraved.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
King Island, Nome Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; King Island. Seward Peninsula per Dorothy Jean Ray
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pipes (smoking equipment)
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Tobacco pipe.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— length 39.7 centimeters and (b)— height 4.5 centimeters
Comment:
Published: Ray, Eskimo Art (1977), fig. 244. "The bowl of the pipe has rare scenes of hunting in the hills. The birdlike objects atop poles are probably amulets" (Ray, 1977). Published and illustrated in Suzi Jones "Eskimo Drawings" 2003. pg 21.
Loans:
S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960) and S1966-1967 #80: Life Sciences Bldg. Photo Lab (UC Berkeley) (March 21, 1967–April 14, 1967)