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Culture/People
Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]
Lender
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
Object Name
Box with cover
Media/Materials
Wood, hide thong/babiche
Techniques
Incised
Object Type
Containers and Vessels
Place
Point Barrow; Arctic Slope Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
Collection History
Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; lent to MAI by the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1929.