Basket lid

Description

Lid of a brown-black basket made of baleen, with bone knob in centre carved in form of a seated polar bear: North America, USA, Alaska, Barrow, Inuit, c. 1933

Museum reference

K.1999.366 B

Collection

Americas

Object name

Basket lid

Production information

Barrow, Alaska, USA, North America

Date

c. 1933

Style / Culture

Iñupiaq

Materials

Baleen, Bone

Physical description

Baleen, brown-black; bone knob carved in form of a seated polar bear

Exhibitions

• Discoveries Redisplay, 2015

On display

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