Story knife
name: label: Culture/People
content: probably Iñupiaq (attributed)
label: Collector
content: Dorr F. Tozier (D. F. Tozier), Non-Indian, 1843-1946
label: Previous owner
content: Dorr F. Tozier (D. F. Tozier), Non-Indian, 1843-1946
label: Previous owner
content: Seattle Land and Improvement Company
label: Previous owner
content: Fred E. Sander (Fred Everett Sander), Non-Indian, 1854-1921
label: Seller
content: Seattle Land and Improvement Company
label: Seller
content: Fred E. Sander (Fred Everett Sander), Non-Indian, 1854-1921
label: Seller agent
content: George Louis Berg (G. L. Berg), Non-Indian, 1868-1941
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collected between 1894 and 1907 by Captain Dorr F. Tozier (1843-1926, associated with the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service); Tozier's collection was purchased in 1909 by the Washington State Art Association (Seattle, Washington); when the Association defaulted on its payments for the collection in 1916, it became the property of the Seattle Land Improvement Company, owned by Fred E. Sander (1854-1921); in 1917, George Louis Berg (1868-1941, director of the Washington State Art Association) negotiated on Fred Sander’s behalf to sell the collection, which was purchased that year by MAI using funds donated by MAI’s Board of Trustees.
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: Bering Strait; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Iñupiaq
label: See related items
content: Games, Toys, Gambling
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 7/419
label: Barcode
content: 070419.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Games, Toys, Gambling
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Story knife
label: Media/Materials
content: Ivory
label: Techniques
content: Incised