figure;
charm;
amulet
- Museum number
- Am1976,03.21
- Description
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Engraved and carved bone amulet in the form of a killer whale figure; shaman's charm.
- Dimensions
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Height: 4.20 centimetres
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Length: 5.50 centimetres
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Curvature: 0.80 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1976
- Acquisition notes
- This object was purchased from Robert Bruce Inverarity in 1976. In his accompanying notes (Eth. Doc. 1225), he records that he obtained the object in c.1955-1960 from John Klejman, proprietor of the Klejman Galleries in New York, who had collected it in Denmark some years earlier.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1976,03.21
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Item 21 (Inverarity collection number)
