Cape Nome, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
Accession Date:
1880
Notes:
FROM CARD: "LOANED TO ALASKA STATE MUSEUM 3-31-83. LOAN RETURNED 09 23 87."
Ilus. Fig. 17, p. 20 in Fitzhugh, William W., and Aron Crowell. 1988. Crossroads of continents: cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. View in the book is the same one identified as "view 1" in the digital images attached to the record. Identified in Crossroad catalogue: "Drillbow, Cape Nome Eskimo. ... This drillbow engraving depicts the greeting of Siberian traders at an Alaskan Eskimo village. Annual trade fairs were the chief means of exchanging Alaskan and Siberian products."
