Carved Ivory Animals
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Dec 1879
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TWO QUADRUPEDS (OTTERS?) JOINED AT LEGS, AND TAILS. DRILLED HOLE THROUGH TAIL. LINE AROUND NECKS AND DOWN BACKS. " Identified as two sea otters joined face to face by Raymond Hudson, 2007.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Pl. 3, after p. 82 in Turner, Lucien M., and Ray Hudson. 2008. An Aleutian ethnography. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. Identified there as "Cleat in the shape of two sea otters joined face to face. Lydia Black suggests this refers to the sea otter origin story in which the incestuous brother and sister were transformed into otters, one swimming east and one swimming west."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 118c, p. 113 in Black, Lydia. 2003. Aleut art = Unangam aguqaadangin. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co. Publishers.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 79A00065
label: USNM Number
content: E35902-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Carving