Object Details
- Culture/People
- Siberian Yupik [Savoogna, St. Lawrence Island]
- Artist/Maker
- Alexander Akeya (Aayanga), Siberian Yupik [Savoogna, St. Lawrence Island], 1928-2011
- 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) in 1978 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
- 26/2541
- Barcode
- 262541.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Object Name
- Figure of a polar bear and cub
- Media/Materials
- Ivory, paint
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Dimensions
- 8.3 x 3.3 x 5 cm
- Place
- Savoonga; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Archipelago
- Bering Sea Islands
- Island Name
- Saint Lawrence Island
- See related items
- Siberian Yupik [Savoogna, St. Lawrence Island]
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_278653
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws69080d2e6-75e3-47c1-8e60-1d0ab649fc9d
