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Object Number 88-51-10/50357
Display Title Pick axe blade made of walrus tusk
Descriptions
Object Description Pick axe blade made of walrus tusk
Inventory Description Pick axe, ivory, point flattened, perforated and notched at broad end, broken
Classification
  • Axe
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Navugmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Point Barrow
Materials Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 36.7 x 3.8 x 2.7 cm (14 7/16 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 14.[crossed out] Pickaxe/56542.[crossed out] Ooglaamie.1887/50357 P.H. Ray, U.S.
Provenance
Collector Lt. P. H. Ray (1882)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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