Ivory implement with two perforations, carved with a bear's head

Collection type: Object
Description: Ivory implement with two perforations, carved with a bear's head
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Alaska Icy Cape
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Edward Belcher; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1884
Date collected: ?1826 1827
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Carved, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length: max 114 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.68.27 PR Cat other PR nos: 2129
Research and responses: In Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt Rivers ms collections there is a handwritten list [P141] headed 'A catalogue of M.General [sic - Major General] Pitt Rivers' Anthropological Collection Objects illustrating Animal Form conventionalised in Ornamentation from different countries' which seems to be a list of all items which were associated with the display entitled 'Illustrations of Human and Animal form Cases 92 - 93' in Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums. A photocopy of this list is held by Alison Petch [AP 23/03/2005]
Associated publications: Bockstoce, 1977: 97 'Ivory implement with flat blade and two perforations, bear's head terminal. Coll at Icy Cape'[AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

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