Umiak seat representing a whale
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI from an unknown source in 1922.
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- Date created
- 1880-1900
- Catalog Number
- 11/3350
- Barcode
- 113350.000
- Object Type
- Watercraft and accessories
- Native Term
- aqutim iksivautana
- Object Name
- Umiak seat representing a whale
- Media/Materials
- Wood, ivory, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Carved, inlaid
- Dimensions
- 15 x 14 x 6 cm
- Place
- Point Barrow; Arctic Slope Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- See related items
- Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]
- Watercraft and accessories
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Arctic & Subarctic
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_122184
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws669c0e984-e3be-4b26-b29f-a234766f4b51
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