Carving
41-31-13A
From: United States of America | Alaska
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 41-31-13A |
| 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 convex 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. |
| Length | 8.5 |
| Width | 5.4 |
| Credit Line | Gift of Jennie W. Rogers, 1941 |
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