Carving Item Number: 3584/17 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Cross-shaped carving with seven holes along top; additional hole, with peg, along front side of vertical bar of cross. Vertical bar is rectangular, with a slightly curved base; horizontal bar of cross is shorter and its left and right edges slant inward. Finely incised decoration where bars meet. Design consists of four inverted triangles surrounding one of the seven holes; inner edges of triangles are bordered with dots. (Peg along top edge is broken inside hole).
Acquired by the donor's father when he lived in Nyac, Alaska, on the Kuskokwim River, from the 1920s to 1960s.