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Horn and wooden dish
Object Number 93-14-10/49694
Display Title Horn and wooden dish
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Niutsivik, qissiamik sanaaq
Inventory Description Dish, circular, flat wood base, horn sides, sewn with sinew, wood studs, mended
Classification
  • Dish
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Greenland Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Greenland
Additional Geographic Terms Arctic highlands
Materials Wood, Horn, Sinew
Dimensions Overall: 6.8 x 12.6 x 10.5 cm (2 11/16 x 4 15/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 49694
Provenance
Collector Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary (1892)
Donor Donated by Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary

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