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Scrimshaw Carving

1977.01.0272

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Artifact Identification Scrimshaw Carving   (1977.01.0272)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Art
    3. :
  3. N/A
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Soviet Era 1922-1991
Date 1971
Culture Chukchi
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 43.6 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 6.1 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 3.7 cm
Weight 794 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Pigment--Dye, Animal--Tooth--Ivory, Animal--Mammal--Marine--Walrus
Manufacturing Processes Incising, Painting

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Mitlyanskaya, Tamara, et al. “Native Carvers and Outsider Artists: Patterns of Interaction in Siberian Eskimo/Chukchi Ivory Carving.” Arctic Anthropology, vol. 33, no. 1, 1996, pp. 67–88. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40316396. Accessed 26 Aug. 2020.

Uelen hunters and artists by Mikhail M. Brohnshtein. Online publication: Jan. 20, 2009
URI https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/019716ar
An article of the journal Études/Inuit/Studies
Volume 31, Issue 1–2, 2007, p. 83–101 Tchoukotka

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Avery Brundage Collection
Reproduction No

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