Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID |
54.221 |
Object Name |
Dish (form) |
Other Name |
Dish with bone inlays |
Culture |
Inupiat |
Date |
1800-1950 |
Material |
Wood/Bone/Sinew |
Description |
Small shallow round wooden dish with bone inlay. Dish bowl constructed of a single piece of rounded carved wood with a flattened base for stability. Sides constructed from a strip of wood bent around base and stitched together at the ends to hold shape. Set in the lip of the dish are four bone inlays decorated with a design featuring three circles in a column with dots in their centers, accompanied by two sets of vertical and horizontal lines. |
Dimensions |
H-4 Dia-12.8 cm |
Found |
North America; United States; Alaska; Nome Census Area; Golovin |
Provenance |
Originally collected in Golovin, Alaska in the 1890s by Mrs Dora Bunker (nee Melsing), wife of Alaskan miner George Bunker. Donated to Stanford by Mrs George Henry Boos in the early 1950s. Henry Boos was born in Alaska in 1899 but the relationship between the two families is unclear. |
Collector |
Bunker, Mrs. George (Dora) |
Collection |
Anthropology; North America; Arctic/Subarctic |
Search Terms |
Inupiat North America United States California Alaska Wood Ivory Mixed material objects Carving |