Ivory Bird Figures
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Dec 1929
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Henry B. Collins Jr.
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Henry B. Collins Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: 2 OF THESE WERE ON DISPLAY IN THE BIRD HALL AT NHB (AS T-15919) FOR MANY YEARS UNTIL THE HALL WAS TAKEN DOWN (OCT., 1999) AT WHICH TIME THE CORRECT CATALOG NUMBER WAS DISCOVERED.
label: Notes
content: 2 of these illus. Fig. 73 p. 71 in Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there: "... prehistoric Eskimo ivory bird-caribou amulets ... These compound creatures have ears and look like caribou crossing water, but the long beaks betray their transformational and spiritual nature."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 12
place: label: Place
content: Cape Kialegak / St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea / St. Lawrence Quad, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 104800
label: USNM Number
content: A346407-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure