Frog bowl/dish
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Yakutat Tlingit
- Artist/Maker
- George Daniel Benson, Sr., Yakutat Tlingit, 1900-1986
- IACB source
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board Office, Sitka, Alaska (IACB Office, Sitka, Alaska)
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board Demonstration Workshop (Sitka, Alaska) (IACB Demonstration Workshop)
- Collection History
- Formerly in the collection held by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board Office in Sitka, Alaska, which included many pieces produced and acquired during IACB demonstration-workshops held in Sitka between 1962 and 1968; transferred to the IACB Headquarters collection in Washington, DC, in 1969; 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
- 1966
- Catalog Number
- 25/8266
- Barcode
- 258266.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Frog bowl/dish
- Media/Materials
- Yellow cedar, abalone/haliotis shell, wood stain
- Techniques
- Carved, stained, inlaid
- Dimensions
- 18 x 12.1 x 6.7 cm
- Place
- Sitka; Sealaska Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)
- Archipelago
- Alexander Archipelago
- Island Name
- Baranof Island
- See related items
- Yakutat Tlingit
- Containers and Vessels
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_274198
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws649923d97-c203-41a7-b668-c9ff9a6bcafd
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