Ivory Plate
name: label: Donor Name
content: Gen. James M. Ashton
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Engravings of 3 human heads and a salmon on one side, leaves on the other. Beveled edges. Chukchi. Probably a shoehorn. Perhaps 19th cent Chukchi and Eskimo did such carvings on order for Russians as shoehorns, umbrella handles, napkin rings This engraving shows two Russians (one on each side), a Chukchi with tattoo, fish, and leaves (the last because Europeans liked them--rare in native Chukchi art). There is a description of such things by a Russian Finn in 1917. Data provided 15 Dec. '82 by Dr. Ilja S. Gurvich, Head of Northern and Siberian Peoples Dept., Institute of Ethnography, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Recorded by Wm. C. Sturtevant."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chukchi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 086056
label: USNM Number
content: E328207-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Artwork