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Charm

Object Number:NA319
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Eskimo
Provenience: Alaska
King Island
Culture Area: Arctic Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Bird
Skin
Length: 28 cm
Credit Line:Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905

Description

Bird wrapped with skin.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Raven's Journey: The World of Alaska's Native People ( Nov 1986 - Feb 2010) View Objects in Exhibition
Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition
Alaskan Arctic Collection ( Feb 1926) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Barsness, Kristin J., and Kaplan, Susan A. 1986. Raven's Journey.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 154, fig. 145View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Collection] Williams, Lucy F. 2003. Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 22, pl. 4View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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