Small Carved Tusk
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOT DOCUMENTED. IDENTIFIED AS ALASKAN STYLE BY STEPHEN LORING, 1997. SMALL, CARVED IVORY TUSK (?) WITH IVORY PEG AND STONE BASE. TUSK IS CARVED INTO TWO HUMAN FIGURES FOLLOWING A BEAR. SIDES ARE ILLUSTRATED IN BLACK LINE TO REPRESENT TWO SCENES: 1) TWO HUMAN FIGURES CARRYING A SEAL 2) IGLOO WITH HUMAN FIGURES AND DOGS PULLING A SLED.
label: Notes
content: SEE SI ARCHIVES
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 May 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E427866-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Carving
physicalDescription: label: Length - Tusk
content: 14.5 cm
label: Height - Base
content: 5 cm