Ornament
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- probably Yuit (Siberian Yup'ik) (archaeological) (attributed)
- Collector
- Farrar Burn, Non-Indian, 1888-1974
- June Burn (Inez June Chandler Burn/Mrs. Farrar Burn), Non-Indian, 1893-1969
- Previous owner
- Farrar Burn, Non-Indian, 1888-1974
- June Burn (Inez June Chandler Burn/Mrs. Farrar Burn), Non-Indian, 1893-1969
- Seller
- Farrar Burn, Non-Indian, 1888-1974
- Object Name
- Ornament
- Media/Materials
- Animal tooth/teeth
- Techniques
- Carved, drilled
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Place
- Old house site; Saint Lawrence Island; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Archipelago
- Bering Sea Islands
- Island Name
- Saint Lawrence Island
- Date created
- probably AD 1600–1900
- Collection History
- Collected by Farrar Burn (1888-1974) and his wife June Chandler Burn (1893-1969) between 1920 and 1921 when they taught in a school on Saint Lawrence Island; purchased by MAI from Farrar Burn in 1923.
- Catalog Number
- 11/6773
- Barcode
- 116773.000
- See related items
- Yuit (Siberian Yup'ik) (archaeological)
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement