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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 / Nome Census Area
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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