Whaling Outfit
Carving
NA4789
From: Alaska | Sledge Island
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA4789 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Eskimo |
| Provenience | Alaska | Sledge Island |
| Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Pyrite |
| Iconography | Whale |
| Description | Carved whale on a board. A mica / gold (?) chip in one eye and two large pieces and one small piece of mica (?) on the bottom. Stone is pyrite/fool's gold. (7/1986) |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Arctic: Seward Peninsula/Siberia; William Blair Van Valin, 1919 |
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