Basket plaque
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- Date created
- 1982-1983
- Culture/People
- Yup'ik (Yupik)
- Artist/Maker
- Rita Angaiak, Yup'ik (Yupik)
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Yugtarvik Regional Museum
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Yugtarvik Regional Museum (Bethel, 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
- Tununak (Tununeq, Tanunak); Calista Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Archipelago
- Bering Sea Islands
- Island Name
- Nelson Island
- See related items
- Yup'ik (Yupik)
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/1092
- Barcode
- 261092.000
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
- Object Name
- Basket plaque
- Media/Materials
- Beach grass/Rye grass, sealskin/fur, commercially tanned leather, glass bead/beads, otter skin/fur, thread
- Techniques
- Coiled, stitched
- Dimensions
- 1.0 x 58.8 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_277187