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- Date created
- 1970-1971
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq
- Artist/Maker
- Alvin Kayouktuk (Alvin Joseph Kayouktuk), Iñupiaq, 1934-1997
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- DOI Indian Craft Shop (Department of the Interior Indian Craft Shop)
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Department of the Interior Indian Craft Shop (Washington, DC) in 1971; 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
- Little Diomede Island; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Archipelago
- Bering Sea Islands
- Island Name
- Little Diomede Island
- See related items
- Iñupiaq
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/1049
- Barcode
- 261049.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Object Name
- Figure
- Media/Materials
- Steatite/soapstone
- Techniques
- Carved, polished
- Dimensions
- 14.2 x 9.3 x 11.7 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_277144