Charm/Amulet
name: label: Culture/People
content: Inuit [Ungava/Ungavamiut]
label: Collector
content: Mr. Townley, Non-Indian
label: Previous owner
content: Mr. Townley, Non-Indian
label: Previous seller
content: Mr. Townley, Non-Indian
label: Previous owner
content: Edmund B. Delabarre (Edmund Burke Delabarre/E. B. Delabarre), Non-Indian, 1863-1945
label: Previous owner
content: Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
label: Seller
content: Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collected in 1895 by Mr. Townley, a trader at Nachvak Sound, near Cape Chudleigh, Labrador, from an Inuit chief from Akpatok Island in Ungava Bay, Labrador; purchased from Mr. Townley in 1900 by Edmund B. Delabarre (1863-1945, a Brown University psychology professor who led a scientific expedition to Labrador for Harvard University and Brown); purchased by anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1950) from Edmund Delabarre, probably between 1920 and 1924; purchased by MAI from Frank Speck in 1924.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Akpatok Island; Qikiqtaaluk Region (Qukiqtani, Baffin); Nunavut; Canada
label: Archipelago
content: Canadian Arctic Archipelago
label: Island Name
content: Akpatok Island
label: Island Grouping
content: Baffin Island Group
setName: label: See related items
content: Inuit [Ungava/Ungavamiut]
label: See related items
content: Personal items
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 12/7532
label: Barcode
content: 127532.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Personal items
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Charm/Amulet
label: Media/Materials
content: Ivory
label: Techniques
content: Perforated