Shave handles

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Object Number 13-52-10/87964

Display Title Shave handles

Descriptions

Inventory Description Handles, 1 carved bone, 1 carved ivory, slit lengthwise for hafting, ivory 1 g

Classification

Handle

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Navugmiut

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / United States / Alaska

Additional Geographic Terms Point Barrow

Materials Bone, Ivory

Dimensions Overall: 9.7 x 1.8 x 0.8 cm (3 13/16 x 11/16 x 5/16 in.)

Quantity 2

Label on object 87964

Provenance

Collector Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1911-1912)

Donor John B. Stetson, Jr. (1913)

Donor Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1913)

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