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品名（中）	头
品名（英）	Head
入馆年号	1991年，1991.228.2
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 100 - 公元 400
创作地区	美国, 阿拉斯加州（United States, Alaska）
分类	骨骼/象牙雕刻（Bone/Ivory-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 2 1/2 × 宽 1 3/4 × 深 1 5/16 英寸 (6.4 × 4.4 × 3.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	在共同纪元前的最后两千年里，在亚细亚和美洲之间的北太平洋边缘定居的人民在很大程度上依赖海洋资源谋生。海象、海豹和鲸鱼对生存很重要，它们都被猎杀。在美国方面，白令海爱斯基摩人小心翼翼地装饰他们狩猎的象牙和木制工具。精美平衡和优雅切割的物体是功能性工具，上面刻有精神图像和设计，以纪念猎人寻找的动物。鱼叉头和前轴，以及被称为带翼物体的插座是突出的例子。海象象牙上还雕刻着人物形象，最常见的是女性。这些神秘但同样优雅的人物被放置的目的尚不清楚。一些当局称它们为洋娃娃 - 最初，他们可能已经穿着 - 而另一些当局称它们为礼仪物品。
介绍（英）	In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the North Pacific Ocean between Asia and America were dependent for their livelihood to a great extent on the resources of the sea. Walrus, seal, and whale were significant to subsistence, and all were hunted. On the American side, the Bering Sea Eskimo were careful to decorate the ivory and wood tools with which they hunted. The beautifully balanced and elegantly incised objects were functional tools that were incised with spirit images and designs that honored the animals the hunters sought. Harpoon heads and foreshafts, and the socket pieces known as winged objects are salient examples. Also carved of walrus ivory were human figures, most frequently female. The purpose to which the enigmatic but equally elegant figures were put is unclear. Some authorities call them dolls-originally, they may have been dressed-while others call them ceremonial objects.