Object Details
- Culture/People
- Houma
- Artist/Maker
- John Parfait, Houma, b. 1943
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Houma Indian Crafts
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from Houma Indian Crafts (Dulac, Louisiana) in 1981; 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
- December 1980
- Catalog Number
- 25/6973
- Barcode
- 256973.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Object Name
- Female mallard duck figure
- Media/Materials
- Tupelo, paint
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Dimensions
- 11.5 x 5 x 5.4 cm
- Place
- Dulac; Terrebonne Parish; Louisiana; USA
- See related items
- Houma
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, Animals
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_272857
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws65ebdc3e8-3865-4503-876c-ef21360943cc
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