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Wrist guards
Object Number 13-52-10/87968
Display Title Wrist guards
Descriptions
Inventory Description Wrist guards, carved bone, 4 oval, 1 rectangular, curved, 2 perforations each
Classification
  • Accessory
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Navugmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough
Additional Geographic Terms Point Barrow
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 8.2 x 4 x 0.3 cm (3 1/4 x 1 9/16 x 1/8 in.)
Quantity 5
Label on object 87968
Provenance
Collector Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1911-1912)
Donor John B. Stetson, Jr. (1913)
Donor Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1913)

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