Object Details
- Culture/People
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Artist/Maker
- Goingback Chiltoskey (Going Back Chiltoskey/G.B. Chiltoskey/Goingback Chiltaski), Eastern Band of Cherokee, 1907-2000
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual (Qualla Arts & Crafts Cooperative/Qualla Arts & Crafts Coop/Qualla Crafts), 1946-
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Qualla Arts and Crafts Cooperative (Cherokee, North Carolina) at an unknown date; 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
- circa 1950
- Catalog Number
- 25/6962
- Barcode
- 256962.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Object Name
- Bear figures
- Media/Materials
- Wood
- Techniques
- Carved, polished
- Dimensions
- 8.8 x 3.7 x 5.1 cm
- Place
- Piney Grove, Eastern Cherokee Reservation, Qualla Boundary; Swain County; North Carolina; USA
- See related items
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_272846
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws67d4cea1c-b24e-4937-9aba-38732b3d4962
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