Carving
- Museum number:
- 2-6836
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020006836
- Alternate number:
- x-3029 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Carved ivory walrus head with fully carved tusks.
- 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
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Taxon:
- Odobenus rosmarus
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits and 2.1 Daily Garb
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- decoration for wooden box, or wooden hat.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 7.7 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-