Female doll
date: label: Date created
content: 1983
name: label: Culture/People
content: Siberian Yupik [St. Lawrence Island]
label: Artist/Maker
content: Ruthelle Kingeekuk (Ruthelle Kingeekuk Sears/Ruthelle Sears), Siberian Yupik [St. Lawrence Island], 1941-2007
label: Previous owner
content: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
label: IACB source
content: Arctic Travelers Gift Shop, 1965-
notes: label: Collection History
content: Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Arctic Travelers Gift Shop (Fairbanks, Alaska) in 1983; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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place: label: Place
content: Savoonga; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
label: Archipelago
content: Bering Sea Islands
label: Island Name
content: Saint Lawrence Island
setName: label: See related items
content: Siberian Yupik [St. Lawrence Island]
label: See related items
content: Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 26/748
label: Barcode
content: 260748.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Games, Toys, Gambling: Dolls
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Female doll
label: Media/Materials
content: Bearded seal gut/intestines, sealskin/fur, bearskin/fur (polar bear), synthetic fabric, cotton cloth, commercially tanned leather, glass bead/beads, imitation hair, cotton embroidery floss, twine/string, mother-of-pearl buttons, synthetic dye/dyes
label: Techniques
content: Dyed, sewn, embroidered, strung
label: Dimensions
content: 7.6 x 22.6 x 35 cm