Brooch/Pin representing a bird, nest, and egg
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq
- Artist/Maker
- Joseph E. Senungetuk (Inusuyauq Sinuyituq/Joseph Engasongwok Senungetuk), Iñupiaq, 1940-2023
- IACB source
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board Office, Sitka, Alaska (IACB Office, Sitka, Alaska)
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board Demonstration Workshop (Sitka, Alaska) (IACB Demonstration Workshop)
- Collection History
- Formerly in the collection held by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board Office in Sitka, Alaska, which included many pieces produced and acquired during IACB demonstration-workshops held in Sitka between 1962 and 1968; transferred to the IACB Headquarters collection in Washington, DC, in 1969; 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
- 1966
- Catalog Number
- 25/7756
- Barcode
- 257756.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Brooch/Pin representing a bird, nest, and egg
- Media/Materials
- Silver, stone
- Techniques
- Cast, bezel-set/stone-setting
- Dimensions
- 4.5 x 4.2 x 1 cm
- Place
- Sitka; Sealaska Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)
- Archipelago
- Alexander Archipelago
- Island Name
- Baranof Island
- See related items
- Iñupiaq
- Adornment/Jewelry
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_273670
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws694c7c2d2-6db2-4dd4-ab37-bcb2de74feb6
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