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Tool box
Object Number 93-1-10/49947
Display Title Tool box
Descriptions
Object Description Man's toolbox for weaponry.
Inventory Description Box, carved wood tool box with lid, knotted rawhide thong, 1 wood/2ivory pegs
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Date Late 1800s
Culture
  • Yupik
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Materials Wood, Sinew, Ivory, Rawhide, Baleen, Red cedar
Dimensions Overall: 40.6 x 12.7 x 8.9 cm (16 x 5 x 3 1/2 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 93-1-10/49947 & 49947
Provenance
Owner Mrs. Henderson (Unknown - Unknown)
Collector Unknown
Donor Prof. Frederic Ward Putnam (01/01/1893)

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