Bear Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Mar 1974
name: label: Collector
content: Louis W. Hill Jr.
label: Donor Name
content: Louis W. Hill Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM ONE PIECE OF WOOD, THE WALKING FIGURE OF A BEAR ON A RECTANGULAR BASE. INSCRIBED "GLACIER PARK" ON ONE SIDE AND "J.L. CLARKE" ON THE OTHER. THIS IS THE WORK OF JOHN L. CLARKE, THE FAMOUS CARVER NEAR GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. THE BEAR WAS ONE OF HIS POPULAR SUBJECTS AND THIS MAY DATE FROM AROUND 1920. IT WAS THE MODEL FOR THE EARLY REPRODUCTIONS SOLD AT THE PARK'S HOTEL GIFT SHOP. ...ILLUSTRATED: EWERS, JOHN C., "PLAINS INDIAN SCULPTURE," FIGURE 210, PAGE 217. IDENTIFIED THERE AS WALKING GRIZZLY BEAR, BY JOHN CLARKE, CA. 1925; WOOD ON BASE. SEE PAGES 215-217 OF THIS BOOK FOR BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF CLARKE."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Aug 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Glacier National Park, Near, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi), Piegan (Piikani)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 310580
label: USNM Number
content: E416411-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure