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SJM Artifact of the Month

carved wooden figure holding a drum

Featured Artifact

The Sheldon Jackson Museum June artifact of the month is a carved Yup’ik figure of a man (SJ-II-S-86). The object's origins are a bit of a mystery though it bears some resemblance to carvings in a qasgig or community house model in the museum’s collection and may have been in a model.

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