Object Details
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq
- Artist/Maker
- Melvin Olanna, Iñupiaq, 1941-1991
- 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
- 1968
- Catalog Number
- 26/1362
- Barcode
- 261362.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Title
- Owl
- Object Name
- Owl figure
- Media/Materials
- Steatite/soapstone, jasper, turquoise
- Techniques
- Carved, incised, inlaid
- Dimensions
- 13.9 x 12 x 14.3 cm
- Place
- Sitka; Sealaska Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Archipelago
- Alexander Archipelago
- Island Name
- Baranof Island
- See related items
- Iñupiaq
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_277459
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws62761288c-164c-4d29-9e25-e34768f41a76
