Whale figurine
- Museum number:
- 2-6138
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020006138
- Alternate number:
- X-2331 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Black whale carved of walrus ivory. Incised and filled black dots.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Unalaklik, Norton Sound, Nome Borough
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Norton Sound; Unalaklik
- Culture or time period:
- Malemiut Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Taxon:
- Odobenus rosmarus
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Figurines
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions and 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- May be a charm.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 8.8 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
- Legacy documentation:
-