Object Details
- Culture/People
- Siberian Yupik [St. Lawrence Island]
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Association, Inc. (Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Clearing House/Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative/ANAC Association, Inc.), 1937-
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from Alaska Native Arts and Crafts (Juneau, Alaska) in 1959; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Date created
- 1959
- Catalog Number
- 25/6465
- Barcode
- 256465.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Object Name
- Carving of a rookery with puffins
- Media/Materials
- Walrus Ivory, paint
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Dimensions
- 6.4 x 5.5 x 8.9 cm
- Place
- Saint Lawrence Island; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Archipelago
- Bering Sea Islands
- Island Name
- Saint Lawrence Island
- See related items
- Siberian Yupik [St. Lawrence Island]
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, Animals
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_272348
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6dc331db0-7a9f-4821-bcdc-a96305d8d0a6
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