Ivory Carving
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Dec 1879
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TWO SMALL LARVAL FIGURES ATTACHED, BACK TO BACK. CURLED BODY, NO ARMS AND LEGS. BODY DECORATED WITH LINES AND DOTS. INVENTORIED 1979."
label: Notes
content: E35876 and 35883 are Illus. Fig. 118b, p. 113 in Black, Lydia. 2003. Aleut art = Unangam aguqaadangin. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co. Publishers. They are identified there as "Two almost identical carvings of sea otter babies back to back, reference to incestuous brother and sister, in death transformed into sea otters who swin away in opposite directions."
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
culture: label: Culture
content: Aleut (Unangax^ ; Unangan; Unangas)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 79A00065
label: USNM Number
content: E35876-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Carving