Carving

41-31-13B

From: United States of America | Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 41-31-13B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience United States of America | Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Whalebone
Technique Carved
Iconography Man | Wolf
Description

Made from spilt half of whalebone, with 41-31-13B. Half is oblong with concave surface smoothed and covex face deeply carved with figure of wolf and a man. Designs nearly identical but reversed on the two pieces. Single perforation on each midway of edge. Probably medicine man's paraphernalia. B has face carved at end of tail.

Length 8.5
Width 5.4
Credit Line Gift of Jennie W. Rogers, 1941

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