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Museum number:
2-4713
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Arrows (projectiles)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Dimensions:
arrow head— length 22 centimeters, whole— length 71 centimeters, arrow head— height 0.9 centimeters, and arrow head— width 0.9 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
Bering Sea, Western Alaska
Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
EOC2019.4
Object class:
Back scratchers
Museum number:
9-34a-c
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Object class:
Banjos
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Collection place:
Alaska
Collection date:
before 1904
Museum number:
9-18768
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
Large ojime at center— height 2.1 centimeters, Remaining 18 ojime— height 1.5 centimeters, and Two small ojime— height 0.8 centimeters
Collector:
John Barr Tompkins
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
unknown
Museum number:
5-7258b
Collector:
LeRoy M. Law
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
pre-1968
Museum number:
9-5685a,b
Object class:
Boxes (containers) and Porcelain (visual works)
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
1909
Museum number:
2-6087a,b
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Dimensions:
b)— width 2.3 centimeters, b)— length 2.4 centimeters, a)— length 2.8 centimeters, a)— height 2.2 centimeters, a)— width 2.4 centimeters, and b)— height 2 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
Bering Sea and North, Alaska
Collection date:
1898
Taxon:
Odobenus rosmarus
Museum number:
9-5588a,b
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
1909
Museum number:
2-6139a-d
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies, 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions, and 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Collection place:
St. Michael Island, Nome Borough, Alaska
Museum number:
3-29519
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Dimensions:
length 29 centimeters
Collector:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection place:
Mexico
Museum number:
3-4711
Object class:
Miniature (size attribute)
Collector:
Wallace Barstow
Collection place:
Paracho municipality, Michoacán, Mexico
Collection date:
unknown
Museum number:
9-12549
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Netsukes
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements and 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Dimensions:
a— length 4 centimeters, c— diameter 1.4 centimeters, and b— length 2.5 centimeters
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1933
Museum number:
9-12544a-c
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects) and Carvings (visual works)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
a— width 7.5 centimeters, c— length 1.5 centimeters, a— length 8.5 centimeters, and b— length 4 centimeters
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1933
Museum number:
9-12542a-c
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects), Dragons, and Twined weaving
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
b— diameter 4 centimeters, c— length 1 centimeters, a— width 3.5 centimeters, and a— length 8 centimeters
Collector:
Bertha Taussig and Hugo Taussig
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1933
Museum number:
9-12546
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects) and Carvings (visual works)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
c— diameter 2 centimeters, a— length 8.7 centimeters, and b— length 4.5 centimeters
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1933
Museum number:
7-6414a,b
Culture or time period:
Spaniards
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Collector:
May Benton MacLafferty
Collection place:
Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Collection date:
1960
Museum number:
7-6415a,b
Culture or time period:
Spaniards
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Collector:
May Benton MacLafferty
Collection place:
Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Collection date:
1960
Museum number:
2-6876
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
length 4 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
Alaska
Collection date:
1898
Museum number:
2-5987
Culture or time period:
Malemiut Eskimo
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
length 4.5 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
Unalaklik, Norton Sound, Nome Borough
Museum number:
2-4494
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
length 3.5 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
Alaska
Museum number:
2-6111
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Dimensions:
length 4.2 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Museum number:
2-6877
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Dimensions:
length 3 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
Alaska
Museum number:
9-5860a-c
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
1909
Museum number:
9-11932a,b
Culture or time period:
Bengali people
Object class:
Carvings (visual works) and Esrajs
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Collector:
H. M. Lissauer
Collection place:
Bengal (historical region)
Museum number:
2-4151
Culture or time period:
Akulemiut Eskimo
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Dimensions:
length 10.5 centimeters
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection place:
Alaska
Collection date:
1898
Museum number:
5-7258a
Object class:
Figurines
Collector:
LeRoy M. Law
Collection place:
Nigeria
Museum number:
9-16711a-h
Object class:
Figurines
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Collector:
Gladys "Gay" Womack and Robert Womack
Collection place:
China
Collection date:
1920s
Museum number:
2-6402
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Dimensions:
whole— length 125 centimeters, point— length 7 centimeters, point— height 0.5 centimeters, and point— width 1.1 centimeters
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Collection date:
unknown
Museum number:
2-6403
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Dimensions:
socket— length 16 centimeters, socket— diameter 2.3 centimeters, and whole— length 128 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
Bering Sea and North, Alaska
Collection date:
unknown
Museum number:
2-6398
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Dimensions:
point— length 7.5 centimeters, shaft— diameter 1.4 centimeters, whole— diameter 2.6 centimeters, point— width 1.3 centimeters, point— height 0.5 centimeters, shaft— diameter 1.3 centimeters, and whole— length 132 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
Norton Sound to Bristol Bay, Alaska
Collection date:
unknown
Museum number:
2-6299
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Dimensions:
whole— length 126.9 centimeters, whole— height 26 centimeters, and whole— width 25 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
Norton Sound to Bristol Bay, Alaska
Collection date:
unknown
Museum number:
2-4391
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Harpoons
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Dimensions:
length 18.9 centimeters and diameter 2.35 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
Bering Sea and North, Alaska
Museum number:
2-4378
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Dimensions:
length 28.7 centimeters and length 6.8 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
Alaska
Museum number:
9-16330
Object class:
Banjos and Floral patterns
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Dimensions:
diameter 19 centimeters and length 60.5 centimeters
Collector:
Dudley Blanchard and Mrs. Dudley Blanchard
Collection place:
China
Collection date:
unknown
Museum number:
9-7796
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation) and 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Collector:
Geraldine C. Robson
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1940
Museum number:
2-4573
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Dimensions:
base— length 28 centimeters and base— width 38 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
Yukon River, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Collection date:
1898
Taxon:
Odobenus rosmarus
Museum number:
9-12530
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Netsukes
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Dimensions:
height 4.5 centimeters
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1933
Museum number:
9-12459
Object class:
Netsukes
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
length 5.08 centimeters
Collector:
Bertha Taussig and Hugo Taussig
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1974
Museum number:
9-12450
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Netsukes
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Collection place:
Japan
Museum number:
9-4816
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Netsukes
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
height 2.5 centimeters, length 9 centimeters, and width 3.5 centimeters
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Japan
Museum number:
9-7450
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Netsukes
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
height without base— height 3.5 centimeters and height with base— height 6.6 centimeters
Collector:
Geraldine C. Robson
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1940
Museum number:
9-7489
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
height 5.3 centimeters
Collector:
Geraldine C. Robson
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1940
Museum number:
9-18827
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Netsukes
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
height 4.2 centimeters and width 3.2 centimeters
Collector:
Dorothy Campbell Tompkins and John Barr Tompkins
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
unknown
Museum number:
9-7897
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
height 4.7 centimeters, width 2.8 centimeters, and length 3.5 centimeters
Collector:
Geraldine C. Robson
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1940
Museum number:
9-7782
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Dragons and Masks (costume)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
height 3.5 centimeters
Collector:
Geraldine C. Robson
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1940
Museum number:
9-7588
Object class:
Netsukes
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
height 5.4 centimeters
Collector:
Geraldine C. Robson
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1940
Museum number:
9-7516
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
height 4 centimeters, width 3.5 centimeters, and length 2.5 centimeters
Collector:
Geraldine C. Robson
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1940
Museum number:
9-16423a,b
Object class:
Netsukes
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Dimensions:
a— height 4.5 centimeters and b— height 1.75 centimeters
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
unknown
Museum number:
9-8978
Object class:
Netsukes
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
height 1.6 centimeters
Collector:
Geraldine C. Robson
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1940
Museum number:
9-7544
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Object class:
Netsukes
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Dimensions:
height 8 centimeters
Collector:
Geraldine C. Robson
Collection place:
Japan
Collection date:
before 1940
Museum number:
7-7421
Object class:
Plaques (flat objects)
Collector:
Albert C. Hooper
Collection place:
Europe
Museum number:
9-22211a-d
Object class:
Portable
Function:
1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)
Dimensions:
c,d— diameter 0.6 centimeters, a: case— length 26 centimeters, c,d— length 28 centimeters, b— width 2.5 centimeters, a: case— width 2.3 centimeters, and b— length 31 centimeters
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard
Collection place:
Tibet
Museum number:
9-21928a,b
Object class:
Bottles, Carvings (visual works), and Snuff bottles
Production date:
19th-20th century
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard
Collection place:
Tibet
Museum number:
9-13581a-c
Object class:
Bottles and Snuff bottles
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Dimensions:
a— height 4.5 centimeters, c— diameter 4 centimeters, and b— length 1.6 centimeters
Collector:
unknown
Collection place:
China
Collection date:
unknown
Museum number:
9-5561a-c
Object class:
Bottles, Porcelain (visual works), and Snuff bottles
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
China
Collection date:
1909
Museum number:
2-4144
Culture or time period:
Akulemiut Eskimo
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Dimensions:
length 13.5 centimeters
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection place:
Alaska
Collection date:
1898
Museum number:
BY.A-49
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard