Cormorant
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Bering Strait Iñupiaq [King Island]
- Artist/Maker
- Peter John Seeganna (Peter J. Seeganna), Bering Strait Iñupiaq [King Island], 1938-1974
- IACB source
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board Office, Sitka, Alaska (IACB Office, Sitka, Alaska)
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB Source
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board Demonstration Workshop (Sitka, Alaska) (IACB Demonstration Workshop)
- Collection History
- Formerly in the collection held by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board Office in Sitka, Alaska, which included many pieces produced and acquired during IACB demonstration-workshops held in Sitka between 1962 and 1968; transferred to the IACB Headquarters collection in Washington, DC, in 1969; 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
- 1967
- Catalog Number
- 25/5212
- Barcode
- 255212.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Title
- Cormorant
- Object Name
- Figure
- Media/Materials
- Alder
- Techniques
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 26.7 x 17.3 x 55.5 cm
- Place
- Sitka; Sealaska Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)
- Archipelago
- Alexander Archipelago
- Island Name
- Baranof Island
- See related items
- Bering Strait Iñupiaq [King Island]
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, Animals
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_271077
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6238db0aa-39bc-4144-bd40-7280ef71904d
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