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Image Not Available for Fungus box ? (tubular)
Fungus box ? (tubular)
Image Not Available for Fungus box ? (tubular)
Object Number 07-8-10/75302
Display Title Fungus box ? (tubular)
Descriptions
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Western Arctic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough
Intrasite Surface find
Additional Geographic Terms Shore between Flaxman Island and Colville River
Provenance
Collector Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1907)
Expedition Anglo-American Polar Expedition (1907)

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Raw Material
Carving
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Raw Material
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Faunal
Sakhalin Island
Sample, fungus
79-14-20/17700 Sample, fungus
Floral
San Luis Potosi
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Fungus
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Floral
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Hyoscyamus niger seed fragments, fungus fragments (see LWO)
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Seed
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Raw Material
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Bark
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Floral
Hoonah
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