Miniature Totem Charm Item Number: 80.98.5 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
Carved bone baton. Carved by Joe Bob Winstead according to Douglas Ewing. Miniature Siberian totem pole. Label on the base says: "Record Marker, 19th century, Eskimo, E. Alaska IPK." Three fish represented as split down the middle and flattened out are carved on a piece of bone. The eyes are drilled out: deep circular groves define the fishes; fins and tails. The bone is mottled grey in color. The surface is pitted and porous but shiny as though coated. There is a hole at the top for suspension.
Credit Line
Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky
Item History
- Made between 1975 and 1980
What
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1975 and 1980
Other
- Location
- Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
- Classification
- (not assigned)