Soapstone Carving of a Bird
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Nov 2019
name: label: Donor Name
content: Sarah B. Wilson
notes: label: Notes
content: Soapstone carving of a bird. Purchased by Annette Barrash from the Canadian Handicrafts Guild in Toronto, sometime in the 1960s-1980s. In 2016, an appraiser (see accession file) described it as "believed to be [made by] Simeonie Uppik [of Sanikiluaq] due to the fact that the style, subject, and region [the original tag said only that it was from Belcher Islands] are consistent with his other pieces.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sanikiluaq, Hudson Bay, Nunavut, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2084030
label: USNM Number
content: E436892-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 12 cm
label: Width
content: 4.8 cm
label: Height
content: 18 cm