Paperweight
Mammoth tusks preserved in the Arctic permafrost provided a ready supply of ivory. This paperweight shows an Inuit or Yupik family and their reindeer.
Artifact
| id |
id
28103
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| contentType |
contentType
object
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| stage |
stage
normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Tiffany & Co., New York; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1916[1]; by bequest to the Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Illustrated and credited to the ""Collection of Henry Walters, Esq."" in George Frederick Kunz, Ivory and the Elephant in Art, in Archaeology, and in Science (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1916), between pages 126 and 127.
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| rightsUri |
rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| pageCount |
pageCount
1
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| source |
source
import
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Source image fields (5)
| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.400_Fnt_BW.jpg |
|---|---|
| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.400_Fnt_BW.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.400_Fnt_BW.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.400 |
Terms
Medium
mammoth ivory
Relations
createdBy
inCollection