Hair Ornament

Artist:Alaska Native

Medium: Ivory, ink

Geograhical Locations:

• Alaska, United States

Dates:late 19th century

Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 1/2 x 3/8 in. or (27.0 x 1.0 cm)

Collections:

• Arts of the Americas

Accession Number: 22.1799

Catalogue Description:
Hair ornament of one long flat piece of ivory joined to a smaller pointed piece by three carved ivory lugs. The longer piece has engravings of fish, a duck, and an abstracted arm with a head and an abstracted bird-like eye. The short piece is actually shaped like a bird beak and has a slit for the mouth and an eye. Condition: good.

Brooklyn Museum