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Object Number
98-18-10/51981
Display Title
Mouthpieces for seal floats
Descriptions
Object Description
Mouthpieces for seal floats
Inventory Description
Worked bone and wood, spool-like, one with wooden stick protruding from hollowed
Classification
- Fishing and trapping
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Sinrarmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms
Port Clarence, Vicinity of
Materials
Bone, Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 6.6 x 3.2 x 2.7 cm (2 5/8 x 1 1/4 x 1 1/16 in.)
Quantity
3
Label on object
51981 & 162 (on smallest spool)
Provenance
Collector
Capt. Miner Bruce
(?)
Donor
Capt. Miner Bruce
(1898)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98-18-10/51982 | Button for mending perforated seal floats |
Fishing and trapping
|
Alaska
| |
| 54-4-10/34453 | Ivory plugs for seal skin floats |
Tools
|
Alaska
| |
| 23-21-10/97986.3 | Lance, dart-harpoon for throwing stick, harpoon and floats |
Harpoon
|
Qaarsut
| |
| 15-36-10/86456.2 | Floats of tule wrapped and attached with hemp twine. |
Float
|
British Columbia
| |
| 41-29-10/23218 | Seal float mouthpiece of ivory |
Utilized ivory
|
St. Lawrence Island
| |
| 07-8-10/75289 | Wooden floats ? |
Tool
|
North Slope Burough
| |
| 23-21-10/97986.4 | Lance, dart-harpoon for throwing stick, harpoon and floats |
Harpoon
|
Greenland
| |
| 69-30-10/1705 | Seal float |
Float
|
Alaska
| |
| 41-29-10/23217 | Seal float mouthpiece of ivory |
Utilized ivory
|
St. Lawrence Island
| |
| 23-21-10/97986 | Lance, dart-harpoon for throwing stick, harpoon and floats |
Spear
|
Greenland
| |
| 23-21-10/97986.1 | Lance, dart-harpoon for throwing stick, harpoon and floats |
Float
|
Greenland
| |
| 69-30-10/1704 | Seal float |
Float
|
Alaska
|