Model Of Killer Whale Amulet

Item number E229546B-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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Illustrated in Crossroads of Continents, fig. 374, pg. 273 , and described as "a killer whale amulet made from walrus ivory traded from the Bering Sea".From card: "This piece depicts a NW Coast 'killer' whale. There is a [wooden] copy of this piece [catalog number E]229546A. Loan: Lowie Museum (BC) 12/31/64 Loan returned: 2/15/66. Loaned to Vancouver Art Gallery 4/18/67Anthropology Catalogue ledger book indicates this and E229546A are both models of artifact 9641, modeled by the Anthropology Laboratory for exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. The ledger lists the name of C.R. Luscombe, who is presumably the model maker.