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Object Number 98-18-10/51984
Display Title Belt buttons?
Descriptions
Object Description Belt buttons?
Inventory Description Disks, perforated bone
Classification
  • Button
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
Dimensions Overall: 3.6 x 3.4 x 0.6 cm (1 7/16 x 1 5/16 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 51984
Provenance
Collector Capt. Miner Bruce (?)
Donor Capt. Miner Bruce (1898)

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