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- Museum number:
- 2-1241
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020001241
- Accession number:
- Acc.46
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Umiak rigging; "block" (hook-shaped); walrus ivory with inset blue glass beads seving as eyes and ears; large hole at base.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Northwest Bering Sea
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Charles L. Hall
- Collection date:
- ca. 1895
- Taxon:
- Odobenus rosmarus
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Nautical rigging
- Accession date:
- August 12, 1902
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- height 9.4 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-