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Object Number 88-51-10/50349
Display Title Seal drag.
Descriptions
Inventory Description Worked ivory ornament on leather thong with incised ivory bead
Classification
  • Fishing and trapping
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Navugmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough
Additional Geographic Terms Point Barrow
Dimensions Overall: 37.2 x 6.7 x 2.1 cm (14 5/8 x 2 5/8 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50349, 56622
Provenance
Collector Lt. P. H. Ray (1882)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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