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Illustration of the walrus tusk
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Photograph of the walrus tusk    
Photograph of the walrus tusk    
The Iñupiat History of engraving Art of engraving
Walrus tusk
Place of origin: North Alaska (Nome?)
Date: c.1900-18 (?)

Attributed by D.J. Ray to Angokwazhuk (c.1875-1918), also known as Happy Jack.

Donated by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1954

Registration number: AOA 1954, Am 5.1079

More about this object type and the motifs shown:
Walrus tusks
Caribou
Birds
Dwellings
Sleds
Umiaqs
Kayaks
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