Block

Museum number:
2-1238
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Umiak rigging; "block" (hook-shaped); incised zigzag borders, 4 inset blue glass beads; also 1 forarm with hand incised on one side. Large hole at base; walrus ivory.
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
Taxon:
Odobenus rosmarus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Nautical rigging
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 14.8 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. Nelson, Pl. LXXVI#19, 21.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955) and S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Block, accession number 2-1238, described as Umiak rigging; "block" (hook-shaped); incised zigzag borders, 4 inset blue glass beads; also 1 forarm with hand incised on one side. Large hole at base; walrus ivory.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Block, accession number 2-1238, described as Umiak rigging; "block" (hook-shaped); incised zigzag borders, 4 inset blue glass beads; also 1 forarm with hand incised on one side. Large hole at base; walrus ivory.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Block, accession number 2-1238, described as Umiak rigging; "block" (hook-shaped); incised zigzag borders, 4 inset blue glass beads; also 1 forarm with hand incised on one side. Large hole at base; walrus ivory.

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