Carved Ivory Miniature Staff
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Dec 1879
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TINY STAFF OF IVORY, ALTERNATELY ROUND AND SQUARE. BIRD STANDING ON 4-LEGGED PEDESTAL AT TOP. DR. HENRY COLLINS HAS IDENTIFIED THIS AS A SMALL VERSION OF THE ALEUT STAFFS CARVED OF WOOD AND PLACED IN FRONT OF A HOUSE WHERE A DEATH HAS OCCURED. 8/1979."
label: Notes
content: Stephen Loring identifies as an ivory tool handle. See also E35915.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Pl. 1, after p. 82 in Turner, Lucien M., and Ray Hudson. 2008. An Aleutian ethnography. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. Identified there as among the ivory items sent from Atka within two days of Turner's arrival; bird, dot and circle motifs strongly suggest an Unangan origin.
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: E35897-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Carving
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 4.5 cm