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Source Description
Mammoth tusks preserved in the Arctic permafrost provided a ready supply of ivory. This paperweight shows an Inuit or Yupik family and their reindeer.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
28103
label
Paperweight
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
28103
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Paperweight
description
Mammoth tusks preserved in the Arctic permafrost provided a ready supply of ivory. This paperweight shows an Inuit or Yupik family and their reindeer.
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.
date
late 19th century
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ivory & Bone
paperweights
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
2.8
height
18.5
depth
9.1
dimensionsRaw
H: 1 1/8 × W: 7 5/16 × D: 3 9/16 in. (2.8 × 18.5 × 9.1 cm)
Source extras
med
mammoth ivory
creator_ids
6214
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
106b2521281c9b38