Carving
- Museum number:
- 2-5879
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020005879
- Alternate number:
- X-969 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Walrus ivory carving of man and several animal heads. Broken off of something. Depicts two large seals carrying on their back a person and three dogs.
- 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:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Colorant (material) (black) and Ivory (material)
- Taxon:
- Odobenus rosmarus
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- was part of a harpoon rest, or another large item made of ivory
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 5 centimeters, width 4 centimeters, and height 1.8 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-