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Object Number 88-51-10/50174
Display Title Ivory toggles
Descriptions
Object Description Ivory toggles
Inventory Description Buttons, carved ivory, 1 seal and 2 whale figures, incised facial features, perf
Classification
  • Button
  • Pipe
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Unaliqmiut
  • Bering Strait Inupiaq
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / <County> / St. Michael
Additional Geographic Terms Norton Sound
Materials Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 3.8 x 0.9 x 0.9 cm (1 1/2 x 3/8 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 3
Label on object 50174 & LNT. & 129299\St. Michaels
Provenance
Collector Lucien M. Turner (1876)
Exchange participant Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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