Probably a Knife or Scraper Handle with Incised Lines and Circles

Arts of the Americas

800–1000

Carver unknown (Punuk)
Seklowaghayaget, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Punuk
Title: Probably a Knife or Scraper Handle with Incised Lines and Circles
Place: Alaska (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 800 CE–1000
Medium: Walrus ivory
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, top-middle, in white ink: "343-3".
Dimensions: 9.2 × 3 × 1.4 cm (3 5/8 × 1 3/16 × 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Buckingham Fund
Reference Number: 1961.570
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Norm and Romayne Potosky, St. Lawrence Island, AK, from between 1944 and 1947 [this and the following according to email from Denver Museum of Art, April 7, 2022, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Denver Art Museum, CO, 1949 [DAM inventory P343-3; incoming receipt, RX3502, Mar. 30, 1961, copy in curatorial object file]; by exchange to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.

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