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Donor Name:
Lucien M. Turner  Search this
Object Type:
Carving
Place:
Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
Accession Date:
16 Dec 1879
Notes:
FROM CARD: "TWO FIGURES JOINED."
E35876 and 35883 are Illus. Fig. 118b, p. 113 in Black, Lydia. 2003. Aleut art = Unangam aguqaadangin. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co. Publishers. They are identified there as "Two almost identical carvings of sea otter babies back to back, reference to incestuous brother and sister, in death transformed into sea otters who swin away in opposite directions."
Record Last Modified:
9 Feb 2016
Specimen Count:
1
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Accession Number:
79A00065
USNM Number:
E35883-0
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Anthropology
Data Source:
NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/32083f2d0-c75c-45c8-b2a1-3a599a0f106b
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8405450