George, Sam (maker). For a young child: each snowshoe is made of two pieces of wood, curved at the toe and lashed with sinew; tails are nailed together; wooden crosspieces; boot webbing of babiche and foot ties of smoked moose; webbing of yellow...
Spear used by women for self-defense; birch shaft; rusty steel blade (two prongs at end, one broken off); set in slit; lashed with babiche around slit and interlaced all the way to other end of shaft; blade brought from Ft. Yukon. Measures 67.5 in....
Spear used by women for self-defense; birch shaft; rusty steel blade (two prongs at end, one broken off); set in slit; lashed with babiche around slit and interlaced all the way to other end of shaft; blade brought from Ft. Yukon. Measures 67.5 in....
Ivory earring bases 1 cm with concentric circles; ivory hook on one only; attached to 10.7 cm strands (6) of seed and small trade beads - blue, black, and white, few pink and green; one strand broken near center divide; three sealskin dividers;...
Earring bases of ivory with concentric circles; not a pair; ivory hooks broken off; attached strands of beads (7) gold and pink seed beads and very thin white seed beads, larger white beads at bottom; two strips of sealskin for dividers; 6.5 cm...
Wooden spoon; bowl, handle tip, small band in center of handle all painted dark red, black figure on spoon bowl; tip of bowl broken off and repaired. Measures 17.5 in. long.¬ulture: Central Yup'ik
Material: Ivory Human head, 6cm in size with broad cheeks, carved nose and mouth, drilled holes for eyes, incised lines between eyebrows and for eyebrows, and drilled holes for nostrils. Object is broken off at neck, the ivory fractured on back of...
Material: Ivory Realistic human head, overly oblong and slightly pointed at top. The face is fully carved including eyes, nose, mouth, small ears on sides, and tattoo lines on forehead, cheeks and chin. Object is broken at neck. Drilled hole at...
Material: Ivory Ivory head. Large round hole through neck into head; face shows many tattoo marks; eye slits deep, narrow; nose unformed, nostrils indicated by shallow drill holes; slit for mouth rather deep; face part dark brown, top of head...
Material: Bird Bone 47.75 mm in length, 9.20 mm wide, elongated oval shape of human face with topknot-like decoration at of head, base of item broken beneath chin of face. Culture: Aleut
Round; 1.5 in. across; replica of pocket watch in walrus ivory; "stem" is broken and once had hole through it for suspension. The numerals are done in fair approximation of the regular ones - the watch has 12 hours but they are not correctly...