Female doll
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq
- Artist/Maker
- Ethel Washington (Napatuktoo/Agnauglugaq/Agnakluwak), Iñupiaq, 1889-1967
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Association, Inc. (Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Clearing House/Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative/ANAC Association, Inc.), 1937-
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from Alaska Native Arts and Crafts (Juneau, Alaska) in 1958; 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
- 1957
- Catalog Number
- 25/8743
- Barcode
- 258743.000
- Object Type
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
- Object Name
- Female doll
- Media/Materials
- Squirrel skin/fur (Ground squirrel), cowhide (calf), ermine skin/fur, sealskin/fur, wood, birchbark, ribbon, ink
- Techniques
- Carved, sewn, painted
- Dimensions
- 29.3 x 11 x 4 cm
- Place
- Kotzebue; NANA Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- See related items
- Iñupiaq
- Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Arctic & Subarctic
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_274691
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws66243d807-8a7e-4fa7-a152-bfce439536ec
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