Amulet in the form of a sea lion
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Amulet in the form of a sea otter,

ca. 1840

Lingít
PU 5101

Information

Title
Amulet in the form of a sea otter
Dates

ca. 1840

Medium
Antler
Dimensions
l. 10.1 cm., w. 2.9 cm., d. 5.7 cm. (4 x 1 1/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Lent by the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Object Number
PU 5101
Place Collected

North America

Marks/Labels/Seals
Written in ink on verso [Elizabeth Marsh Museum number]: 179/82 Paper label with object: Amulet, bone. / (Shaman's charm [...]) / Totemic carving / Rev. S. Jackson / Alaska Paper label with object [exhibition label]: Carving of a sea-otter (ivory) antler / This Alaskan carving is reminiscent of the Eurasiatic Animal style, with which Northwest Coast art is probably distantly but generically related through the Ipiutak Culture (c. 200 B.C.), the only identified branch of that pervasive and wide-flung style yet found in America which may have been the artistic fore-bear of both Eskimo and Northwest Coast, both of which have followed independent lines of development since, and are not now considered to be related.
Culture
Lingít, Native American
Type
charms, amulets, pendants (jewelry), sculpture
Materials
antler
Techniques
carving
Subject
otters

Collected by Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, in or after 1877; Given to Princeton Theological Seminary, 1879-1882; Given to E. M. Museum (Princeton Museum of Natural History), 1882

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