Belt fastener carved in shape of seal; incised concentric circles on animals back around central hole.
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)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 7 centimeters
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955) and S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)