Crab Fishing through Ice (also titled "Black and Blue")
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- Date created
- May 26, 1966
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq
- Artist/Maker
- Joseph E. Senungetuk (Inusuyauq Sinuyituq/Joseph Engasongwok Senungetuk), Iñupiaq, 1940-2023
- 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
- Acquired by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives in 1966 when the artist was employed as an IACB arts and crafts assistant at Sitka, Alaska; 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
- Iñupiaq
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/2313
- Barcode
- 262313.000
- Object Type
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Title
- Crab Fishing through Ice (also titled "Black and Blue")
- Object Name
- Media/Materials
- Paper, ink
- Techniques
- Woodcut/Woodblock printed
- Dimensions
- 38.8 x 31.2 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_278423