Object Details
Culture/People
Yup'ik (Yupik)
Artist/Maker
Julius Pleasant, Yup'ik (Yupik), 1907-1999
Previous owner
Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
IACB source
Samuel K. Fox Museum
Collection History
Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Samuel K. Fox Museum Shop (Dillingham, Alaska) in 1988; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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Date created
1988
Catalog Number
25/6387
Barcode
256387.000
Object Type
Indigenous Knowledge and Records
Object Name
Calendar
Media/Materials
Walrus Ivory
Techniques
Carved, incised, drilled
Dimensions
7.5 x 5.8 x 4 cm
Place
Quinhagak; Calista Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)
See related items
Yup'ik (Yupik)
Indigenous Knowledge and Records
Data Source
National Museum of the American Indian
Link to Original Record
Record ID
NMAI_272270