Peabody Collection Highlights

These objects are typical of those studied by today's educators, students, and scholars. Selected from the Peabody Museum's more than 600,000 archaeological and ethnographic items, these artifacts—regularly used in art, science, and history classes led by the Peabody educators—highlight the depth and breadth of the collections and their considerable geographic and temporal range throughout the Americas.

Polar bear effigy; ivory; Alaska<br />
The Thule culture—ancestral to modern Inuit people—spread across much of the arctic and sub-arctic around 1,000 years ago. This polar bear is carved in the Thule style and may be a hunting charm.

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Polar bear effigy; ivory; Alaska
The Thule culture—ancestral to modern Inuit people—spread across much of the arctic and sub-arctic around 1,000 years ago. This polar bear is carved in the Thule style and may be a hunting charm.

Peabody Collection Highlights

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