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Object Number 98-18-10/51972
Display Title Ivory toggles
Descriptions
Inventory Description Toggle, one incised line
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Sinrarmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Nome Census Area
Additional Geographic Terms Port Clarence, Vicinity of
Materials Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 2.9 x 1.6 x 1.5 cm (1 1/8 x 5/8 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 51972
Provenance
Collector Capt. Miner Bruce (?)
Donor Capt. Miner Bruce (1898)

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