Figure, sitting bird
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNKNOWN. FIGURE OF A BIRD SITTING DOWN. TWO INCISED AND RAISED ARES ON SIDES AND BACK PERHAPS WINGS. EYES AND MOTH INCISED. LONG THICK NECK. GREY STONE.
label: Notes
content: SEE SI ARCHIVES
label: Notes
content: Scratched on bottom: "Jonah; E6-262." E6-262 was the artist's "Disc number", a.k.a. "Identification tag." "E" was used for Inuit living east of Gjoa Haven. The Canadian government issued disc numbers to Inuit people starting in the 1940s and continuing into the 1970s.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E427850-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 13.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 45 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 17 cm