Object Details
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq [Kowagmiut/Ambler, Alaska]
- Artist/Maker
- Bessie Douglas, Iñupiaq [Kowagmiut/Ambler, Alaska], 1917-1994
- Collector
- Bernhard U. Krummel, Non-Indian, 1911-1990
- Florence C. Krummel (Florence Choiniere Krummel), Non-Indian, 1911-2003
- Previous owner
- Bernhard U. Krummel, Non-Indian, 1911-1990
- Florence C. Krummel (Florence Choiniere Krummel), Non-Indian, 1911-2003
- Donor
- Maradel Krummel Gale, Non-Indian
- Collection History
- Collected by Florence C. Krummel (1911-2003, a retired high school teacher) and Bernhard U. Krummel (1911-1990), probably between 1973 and 1980 when they lived in the Anchorage, Alaska, area; donated to NMAI by their daughter Maradel Krummel Gale in 2003.
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- Date created
- circa 1975
- Catalog Number
- 26/2524
- Barcode
- 262524.000
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
- Object Name
- Basket
- Media/Materials
- Birchbark, willow root, wood
- Techniques
- Plaited, stitched
- Dimensions
- 19 x 20 x 19.7 cm
- Place
- Ambler; NANA Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- See related items
- Iñupiaq [Kowagmiut/Ambler, Alaska]
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_278636
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6408b7c24-6ba0-4aa2-8a49-0eea13ae4495
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