Ivory Carving of Seal (possibly a Ribbon Seal)

Unidentified Koryak maker
Western Arctic
Arctic

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collected about 1897

Ivory with incised stripes

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York

14.1.4459

Geography

Place Made: Russia, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Figure

Research Area

European History

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015

Russian 38.23, Imagining Siberia, Tatiana Filimonova, Spring 2023

Russian 38.23, Native American Indigenous Studies 30.27, Imaging Siberia, Tatiana Filimonova, Winter 2024

Provenance

Collected by the Jessup Expedition, about 1897, sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York; received by present collection in Exchange #3, 1914.

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