Carving
date: label: Date created
content: circa 1940
name: label: Culture/People
content: Inuit
label: Collector
content: Chief Warrant Officer George W. Smith (George Washington Smith), Non-Indian, 1915-1985
label: Previous owner
content: Chief Warrant Officer George W. Smith (George Washington Smith), Non-Indian, 1915-1985
label: Previous owner
content: Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington Navy Yard
label: Donor
content: Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington Navy Yard
notes: label: Collection History
content: Acquired from local Native people by Chief Warrant Officer George Washington Smith (1915-1985) in exchange for cartons of cigarettes when he was posted on the USS Bear from 1941 to 1944 on patrol from Greenland to Boston; donated by George W. Smith to the Navy Supply Corps Museum (Athens, Georgia) in 1982; transferred to the Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington Navy Yard (Washington, DC) in 2010 when the Navy Supply Corps Museum closed; donated by the Naval History and Heritage Command to NMAI in 2011.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: South of Southampton Island near entrance to Hudson Strait; Hudson Bay; Canada
setName: label: See related items
content: Inuit
label: See related items
content: Sculpture/Carving/Figures
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 26/8061
label: Barcode
content: 268061.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture/Carving/Figures
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Carving
label: Media/Materials
content: Walrus Ivory
label: Techniques
content: Carved
label: Dimensions
content: 50.0 x 12.0 x 10.8 cm