Bucket Or Box Handle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Jan 1936
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mary M. Walcott
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Beautifully decorated in the Old Bering Sea style of incised carving; wheel-like elements at each end are typical of the Diomedes. Split on either side of the middle wheel-like rosettes at each end; perforated behind for attachment. Cast loaned to the National Gallery of Art Oct 20, 1972. Cast returned by the Nataionl Gallery of Art May 30, 1973 and put in storage ... 9-30-1984 Lent to the American Federation of Arts; Ancient Ivories of the Bering Strait Eskimo exhibition. Loan returned Mar 7 1988. Illsu. in exhibit catalogue Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait by Allen Wardwell, 1986, #82, pg. 76. Identified there as Pail or Bag Handle, walrus ivory, Old Bering Sea II, ca. 100 AD - 300 AD."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in Fitzhugh, William W., Julie Hollowell, and Aron L. Crowell. 2009. Gifts from the Ancient Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, CT. p 30.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Cast of this object (A377352-1) is still in its location.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=495 , retrieved 7-31-2018; see web page for additional information: Bucket handle. The style of engraving on this walrus ivory bucket handle suggests that it was carved during the Old Bering Sea II period, about A.D. 400 – 800. The Old Bering Sea culture centered on St. Lawrence Island, the Siberian coast, and the Diomede Islands in Bering Strait, where this artifact was found. The designs include circles surrounding dots, an image that among later Bering Sea cultures represented the universe. In its overall shape the handle resembles a mask or snow goggles.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Teller Quad / Diomede Islands, Alaska / Siberia / Bering Strait, United States / Russia, North America / Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Old Bering Sea
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 137455
label: USNM Number
content: A377352-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Handle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 18.2 cm