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- Date created
- 1982-1983
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq
- Artist/Maker
- John Sinnok, Iñupiaq, b. 1951
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Association, Inc. (Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Clearing House/Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative/ANAC Association, Inc.), 1937-
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from Alaska Native Arts and Crafts (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
- Shishmaref; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- See related items
- Iñupiaq
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/984
- Barcode
- 260984.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Object Name
- Figure
- Media/Materials
- Whale bone, baleen
- Techniques
- Carved, inlaid
- Dimensions
- 18.4 x 9.4 x 13.0 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_276771