Figure
date: label: Date created
content: 1981-1983
name: label: Culture/People
content: Cu'pig (Cup'ik) [Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island]
label: Artist/Maker
content: Jim Shavings (James Harvey Shavings), Cu'pig (Cup'ik) [Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island], 1946-1983
label: Previous owner
content: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
label: IACB source
content: Alaskan Ivory Exchange
notes: label: Collection History
content: Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Alaskan Ivory Exchange (Anchorage, Alaska) in 1983; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Anchorage; Cook Inlet Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Cu'pig (Cup'ik) [Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island]
label: See related items
content: Sculpture/Carving/Figures
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 25/6493
label: Barcode
content: 256493.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture/Carving/Figures
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Figure
label: Media/Materials
content: Ivory, baleen
label: Techniques
content: Carved, incised, polished, painted, inlaid
label: Dimensions
content: 2 x 2.5 x 5.2 cm