Ivory Carving
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Dec 1879
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TINY FIGURE OF OTTER LYING ON BACK, FRONT PAWS UP TO FACE. STOMACH AND BACK DECORATED WITH V-SHAPED SCRATCHED. CARVED LOOP ON BACK FOR HANGING. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 5, ARCTIC, FIG. 10, PG. 172. ...USED AS DECORATIONS ON WOODEN HATS, AS AMULETS, AND POSSIBLY AS FASTENERS ON KAYAKS."
label: Notes
content: Ivory sea otter figure; made as a charm for hunting visors, this figure helped attract sea otters to the hunter.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 118a, p. 113 in Black, Lydia. 2003. Aleut art = Unangam aguqaadangin. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co. Publishers.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
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: E35893-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 2.5 cm