Letter opener
date: label: Date created
content: 1980
name: label: Culture/People
content: Bering Strait Iñupiaq [King Island]
label: Artist/Maker
content: Joachim Koyuk (Sewakim Koyuk), Bering Strait Iñupiaq [King Island], 1908-1983
label: Previous owner
content: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
label: IACB source
content: Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Association, Inc. (Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Clearing House/Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative/ANAC Association, Inc.), 1937-
notes: label: Collection History
content: Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from Alaska Native Arts and Crafts (Anchorage, Alaska) in 1981; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
label: Contact Us
content: Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
place: label: Place
content: Nome; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Bering Strait Iñupiaq [King Island]
label: See related items
content: Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 25/6698
label: Barcode
content: 256698.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Letter opener
label: Media/Materials
content: Ivory, baleen
label: Techniques
content: Carved, incised, inlaid, painted
label: Dimensions
content: 18 x 2.1 x 1.3 cm