Specimen Of Pictograph Art
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Jan 1930
name: label: Donor Name
content: Capt. C T. Pedersen
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Tip end of walrus tusk, old ivory, light brown in color. Etchings on one side show men and women, reindeer, bears, foxes and dogs. On opposite side detached floral patterns. Life figures have blue ink or other pigment rubbed into lines. Floral patterns black and red pigment. Similar to cat. no. 328207. Ivory, made on order. Illustrates daily activities - bear hunt, visiting Maritime Chukchi, a dog fight or dog catching (or perhaps catching northern fox). Realistically done. This is at the beginning of the artistic development that flowered in the 1930's among Chukchi and Eskimo. An important piece because evidently has good collection data. 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: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northeast, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, Siberian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 108399
label: USNM Number
content: E345472-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Artwork