Shaman Working Through Spirit Woman

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Date created: 1958

Culture/People: Iñupiaq
Artist/Maker: James Kivetoruk Moses, Iñupiaq, 1902-1982
Previous owner: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
IACB source: Philbrook Museum of Art (Philbrook Art Center), 1939-

Collection History: Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Philbrook Art Center (Tulsa, Oklahoma) in 1959; 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: Nome; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)

See related items: Iñupiaq; Painting/Drawing/Print

Data Source: National Museum of the American Indian

Catalog Number: 25/9427
Barcode: 259427.000

Object Type: Painting/Drawing/Print

Title: Shaman Working Through Spirit Woman
Object Name: Painting
Media/Materials: Paperboard, colored pencil, ink, watercolor
Techniques: Drawn, painted
Dimensions: 20.1 x 27.9 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

GUID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6c68dab2e-24b0-427e-902d-a93d40c4e628

Record ID: NMAI_275481