Shaft straightener with seal effigy
- Date created
- 1880-1896
- Culture/People
- Malemiut Iñupiaq [Kotzebue Sound]
- Collector
- Daniel B. Austin (Dan Austin/Daniel Berry Austin), Non-Indian, 1863-1956
- Previous owner
- Daniel B. Austin (Dan Austin/Daniel Berry Austin), Non-Indian, 1863-1956
- Roy Latham, Non-Indian, 1881-1979
- New York State Archaeological Association Museum (Southold Indian Museum), 1925-
- Collection History
- Collected in 1896 by Daniel Berry Austin (1863-1956, a Standard Oil employee who collected many kinds of items); given by Daniel Austin to amateur naturalist Roy Latham (1881-1979) at an unknown date; donated by Roy Latham to the New York State Archaeological Association Museum (the Southold Indian Museum, Southold, New York), possibly in 1969; acquired by MAI in 1974 through an exchange with the New York State Archaeological Association Museum.
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- Place
- Koyuk; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- See related items
- Malemiut Iñupiaq [Kotzebue Sound]
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Arctic & Subarctic
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 25/125
- Barcode
- 250125.000
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Shaft straightener with seal effigy
- Media/Materials
- Walrus Ivory, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Carved, perforated, inlaid, incised
- Dimensions
- 16 x 5 x 2 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_265884