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Object Details
- Culture/People
- Yup'ik (Yupik Eskimo)
- Artist/Maker
- Ayap'run Jack Abraham (Jack Abraham), Yup'ik (Yupik Eskimo), b. 1956
- IACB source
- Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center Shop (Anchorage Museum of History and Art Shop/Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum Shop)
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Anchorage Museum of History and Art museum shop (Anchorage, Alaska) in 1988; 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
- May 1987
- Catalog Number
- 25/5422
- Barcode
- 255422.000
- Object Type
- Works of Art (Other)
- Title
- Visions of a Nuclear Future
- Object Name
- Mask
- Media/Materials
- Yellow cedar, horsehair, walrus ivory, sea snail (turban snail) opercula, yarn, commercially tanned leather
- Techniques
- Carved, wrapped, tied
- Dimensions
- 44 x 27.5 x 13.2 cm
- Place
- Anchorage; Cook Inlet Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Yup'ik (Yupik Eskimo)
- Works of Art (Other)
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_271287
