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Date created: 1981-1983

Culture/People: Cu'pig (Cup'ik) [Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island]
Artist/Maker: Jim Shavings (James Harvey Shavings), Cu'pig (Cup'ik) [Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island], 1946-1983
Previous owner: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
IACB source: Alaskan Ivory Exchange

Collection History: Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Alaskan Ivory Exchange (Anchorage, Alaska) in 1983; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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Place: Anchorage; Cook Inlet Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)

See related items: Cu'pig (Cup'ik) [Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island]; Sculpture/Carving/Figures

Data Source: National Museum of the American Indian

Catalog Number: 25/6494
Barcode: 256494.000

Object Type: Sculpture/Carving/Figures

Object Name: Figure
Media/Materials: Ivory
Techniques: Carved, polished, painted
Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.8 x 2 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

GUID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6b608db5c-8dea-4ded-8cc3-3cea74835c6c

Record ID: NMAI_272377