063 bowhead
Identification number: 063b
Object: Carved whale (bowhead?)
Material: Walrus tusk
Artist: unknown, probably Eskimo
Date: late 19th or early 20th Century
Length: 8 5/8" 21.91 cm
Width: 1 3/4" 4.45 cm
Thickness: 1 1/4" 3.18
Pigment: Black in mouth, eyes, blowholes
Design description: - Carved whale shape
Condition: dirty, fine Length:wise cracking, rust on flukes from pins holding flukes to body
Cleaned 3 May 1999
Other notes: Outside edges of flukes pinned on to gain Width: - hole in bottom suggests it may have been mounted
Location: Box #3
Cataloged by Judith N. Lund
19 April 1999
