basket
- Museum number
- Am1984,03.1.a-b
- Description
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Round, coiled basket made of dark-grey baleen and bird quills, with base of walrus ivory. One decorative strip of white baleen slightly below the upper edge. With lid of dark-grey baleen and bird quills, with carved finial of walrus ivory in form of a walrus head with tusks. The walrus's eyes, nostrils and whiskers incised and painted with black ink (?).
- Production date
- 1952
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10.50 centimetres
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Height: 10 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- An almost identical basket, which differs only in the length of the stiches in the central white band, appears in Dorothy Jean Ray's "Eskimo Art: Tradition and Innovation in North Alaska", 1977 (fig.223, p.210). That basket is also attributed to weaver Martin Sakvan Peter from Barrow, Alaska.
- Location
- On display (G26/dc19)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1987 15 Jul-1995 15 Jul, Museum of Mankind, Introduction to the Collections
1999-2020 25 Jun-12 Mar, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "Working with Ivory and Stone"
2020-2021 October-Feb, London, BM, Arctic: culture and climate
- Acquisition date
- 1984
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1984,03.1.a-b
