Raven figure group
- Date created
- 1965
- 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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- Place
- Sitka; Sealaska Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Archipelago
- Alexander Archipelago
- Island Name
- Baranof Island
- See related items
- Yakutat Tlingit
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, Animals
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 25/7017
- Barcode
- 257017.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Object Name
- Raven figure group
- Media/Materials
- Yellow cedar
- Techniques
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 14 x 21.5 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_272902